Holly Womack
Summary: Ruby Central hired Trail of Bits to complete a security assessment and a competitive analysis of RubyGems.org, the official package management system for Ruby applications. The blog post states RubyGems.org has over 184 billion downloads to date and describes it as critical infrastructure for the Ruby language ecosystem.
Why it matters: RubyGems.org has served more than 184 billion downloads, so any weakness in the central repository where Ruby applications pull their dependencies reaches a very large installed base.
Read the original at Trail of Bits Blog ↗
- Topics
- OT / ICS & Critical Infrastructure
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