security practices

The Rust ecosystem’s widely used protobuf crate contains a denial‑of‑service flaw: CVE‑2025‑53605 affects versions before 3.7.2 and permits uncontrolled recursion in protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group when processing unknown fields from untrusted input. The maintainers...

Linux evangelists and the “just use Linux” crowd have a habit of boiling complex trade‑offs into neat absolutes — and the recent roundup of “5 Windows myths Linux users love to lecture you about” captures that tone well while also raising legitimate points worth discussing. The piece enumerates...