Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

When working with .Net, it is important to understand how the garbage collector works. The .Net CLR manages two different heaps, the small object heap (SOH) and the large object heap (LOH). This ...

Around 70 percent of all the vulnerabilities in Microsoft products addressed through a security update each year are memory safety issues; a Microsoft engineer revealed last week at a security ...

When ARC was introduced in Objective-C, memory management become much less of an issue, but you can still create issues especially with holding objects longer than needed. Here’s an open source iOS ...