Update: Rust is now here in the Windows 11 kernel. At the recently held BlueHat IL 2023 conference, David Weston, Vice President, Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft, took to the stage to discuss ...

Microsoft announced that the latest Windows 11 build shipping to Insiders in the Canary channel comes with additional Windows Kernel components rewritten in the memory safety-focused Rust programming ...

Recap: Historically, the vast majority of security issues encountered on the Windows platform have been memory-related bugs. Rust can provide a highly effective solution to this long-standing problem, ...

The switch from C++ to Rust aims to make the kernel more concise, secure, and efficient. Microsoft has already added a significant 36,000 lines of Rust code to the kernel, which has led to the ...

Windows 11 is going rusty, and we don't mean that someone left the operating system out in the rain for too long - rather that Rust is now part of the OS in a fresh plan being enacted by Microsoft to ...

The Rust programming language has become quite popular over the past few years. In May 2023, Microsoft promised to introduce Rust in the Windows 11 kernel, and it delivered on that promise very soon ...

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 ...

A critical vulnerability in the Rust standard library could be exploited to target Windows systems and perform command injection attacks. The flaw was discovered by a security engineer from Flatt ...

The Rust Project has issued an update for its standard library, after a vulnerability researcher discovered a specific function used to execute batch files on Windows systems could be exploited using ...

Tier 1 status brings the Rust language project’s highest support guarantees to users of 64-bit Arm systems running Windows. The Rust Release Team has released Rust 1.91, an update of the popular ...