The field of secure coding and hardware verification is rapidly evolving, with a focus on developing innovative techniques to detect and prevent security vulnerabilities. Recent research has made significant progress in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of taint analysis, speculative execution vulnerability detection, and hardware fuzzing. Notably, there is a growing interest in leveraging type-based checking and weakest precondition reasoning to enhance the security of software and hardware systems. Additionally, novel approaches to debugging and verification, such as interactive visualizations and differential information flow tracking, are being explored to improve the development and maintenance of secure systems. Some noteworthy papers in this area include:

• Practical Type-Based Taint Checking and Inference, which presents a new approach to type-based taint checking with reduced false positives and automatic inference of tainting type qualifiers.
• SynFuzz, which introduces a novel hardware fuzzer designed to detect synthesis bugs and vulnerabilities at the gate-level netlist.
• DejaVuzz, which proposes a pre-silicon stage processor transient execution bug fuzzer utilizing dynamic swappable memory and differential information flow tracking.