I knew I would find a statement like this in the security page: "So using modern language techniques programming in C++ is not more dangerous then programming in Java, Python or Ruby."

This is a belief that many C++ programmers have, and having spent much of my life in the past few years finding ways to break a C++-like memory model (Rust) I cannot emphasize enough how dangerously wrong it is. Safer than C, sure. As safe as a memory-safe language like Java, absolutely not.