When Browser Memory Becomes a Bento Box
03.06.2026
Google Earth, Zoom, Twitch.tv, or Photoshop – thanks to the WebAssembly standard, many powerful applications now run directly in the browser without installation. However, some of these web apps have serious security vulnerabilities. Researchers from paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen have developed a solution to secure COTS applications by automatically reorganizing their memory.