ZDNet

A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

A tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. The findings showed that ...
Bleeping Computer

TARmageddon flaw in abandoned Rust library enables RCE attacks

A high-severity vulnerability in the now-abandoned async-tar Rust library and its forks can be exploited to gain remote code execution on systems running unpatched software. Tracked as CVE-2025-62518, ...
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Amazon Web Services gives money for more security of the standard Rust library

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a competition to verify the security of the Rust standard library. Individual challenges verify different areas of the Rust libraries. Rust is particularly ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks

Threat actors can exploit a security vulnerability in the Rust standard library to target Windows systems in command injection attacks. GitHub rated this vulnerability as critical severity with a ...