NSA is warning the developers that C and C++ are not memory-safe programming languages

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NSA is urging developers to shift to memory-safe programming languages rather than C and C++ to protect their code from remote code execution or other hacker attacks.

Commonly used languages, such as C and C++, provide a lot of freedom and flexibility in memory management while relying heavily on the programmer to perform the needed checks on memory references.

Analyzing the software using static and dynamic application security testing (SAST and DAST) can identify memory use issues in software.

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