Episode 153
This week we bring you part 2 of Camila's guide on Ubuntu server hardening, plus we cover vulnerabilities and updates in Expat, Firefox, OpenSSL, LibreOffice and more.
Mar 18, 2022•37 min
Ubuntu Security Podcast
A fortnightly podcast talking about the latest developments and updates from the Ubuntu Security team, including a summary of recent security vulnerabilities and fixes as well as a discussion on some of the goings on in the wider Ubuntu Security community.
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Episode 152
It's a big week for kernel security vulnerabilities - we cover Dirty Pipe and fixes for the latest microarchitectural side channel issues, plus we bring you the first in a 3 part series on hardening your Ubuntu systems against malicious attackers.
Mar 11, 2022•28 min
Episode 151
This week we do the usual round-up of security vulnerability fixes for the various Ubuntu releases, plus we discuss enabling PIE for Python and preview some upcoming content on Ubuntu system hardening as well.
Mar 04, 2022•9 min
Episode 150
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS is released, plus we talk about Google Project Zero's metrics report as well as security updates for the Linux kernel, expat, c3p0, Cyrus SASL and more.
Feb 25, 2022•18 min
Episode 149
This week Qualys dominate the week in security updates, disclosing details of 4 different SUID-root vulnerabilities, including Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine), plus we look at updates for Firefox, cryptsetup and more.
Feb 18, 2022•24 min
Episode 148
It's main vs universe as we take a deep dive into the Ubuntu archive and look at these components plus what goes into each and how the security team goes about reviewing software destined for main, plus we cover security updates for Django, BlueZ, NVIDIA Graphics Drivers and more.
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Episode 147
We're back after a few weeks off to cover the launch of the Ubuntu Security Guide for DISA-STIG, plus we detail the latest vulnerabilities and updates for lxml, PolicyKit, the Linux Kernel, systemd, Samba and more.
Feb 04, 2022•20 min
Episode 146
Ubuntu 21.04 goes EOL soon, plus we cover security updates for Django, the Linux kernel, Apache httpd2 + Log4j2, Ghostscript and more.
Jan 14, 2022•16 min
Episode 145
The Ubuntu Security Podcast is back for 2022 and we're starting off the year with a bang💥! This week we bring you a special interview with Kees Cook of Google and the Linux Kernel Self Protection Project discussing Linux kernel hardening upstream developments. Plus we look at security updates for Mumble, Apache Log4j2, OpenJDK and more.
Jan 06, 2022•57 min
Episode 144
Happy holidays! This week we bring you the second part of a special two-part holiday themed feature by Camila from the Ubuntu Security team discussing how best to protect yourself and your systems from the top cyber threats faced during the holidays.
Dec 31, 2021•18 min
Episode 143
Happy holidays! This week we bring you the first part of a special two-part holiday themed feature by Camila from the Ubuntu Security team discussing the top cyber threats faced during the holidays.
Dec 24, 2021•25 min
Episode 142
Just in time for the holidays, Log4Shell comes along to wreck everyone's weekend - so we take a deep dive into the vulnerability that has set the internet on fire, plus we cover security updates for BlueZ, Firefox, Flatpak and more.
Dec 16, 2021•15 min
Episode 141
A preview of some things to come for the Ubuntu Security Podcast plus we cover security updates for Samba, uriparser, libmodbus, MariaDB, Mailman and more.
Dec 10, 2021•11 min
Episode 140
A gnarly old bug in NSS is unearthed, plus we cover security updates for ICU, the Linux kernel and ImageMagick as well.
Dec 03, 2021•13 min
Episode 139
This week we put out a call for testing and feedback on proposed Samba updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS plus we look at security updates for Mailman, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, BlueZ and more.
Nov 26, 2021•8 min
Episode 138
This week we discuss some of the challenges and trade-offs encountered when providing security support for ageing software, plus we discuss security updates for the Linux kernel, Firejail, Samba, PostgreSQL and more.
Nov 19, 2021•16 min
Episode 137
This week we look at some details of the 29 unique CVEs addressed across the supported Ubuntu releases in the past 7 days and more.
Nov 12, 2021•7 min
Episode 136
The road to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS begins so we look at some of its planned features plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, Mailman, Apport, PHP, Bind and more.
Nov 05, 2021•16 min
Episode 135
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS targeted at Tianfu Cup 2021 plus we cover security updates for Linux kernel, nginx, Ardour and strongSwan.
Oct 22, 2021•12 min
Episode 134
It's release week! As Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri is released we take a look at some of the new security features it brings, plus we cover security updates for containerd, MongoDB, Mercurial, docker.io and more.
Oct 15, 2021•14 min
Episode 133
This week we look at a Wifi lookalike attack dubbed "SSID stripping" plus updates for ca-certificates, EDK II, Apache, the Linux kernel and even vim!
Oct 01, 2021•18 min
Episode 132
Extended Security Maintenance gets an extension, Linux disk encryption and authentication goes under the microscope and we cover security updates for libgcrypt, the Linux kernel, Python, and more.
Sep 24, 2021•17 min
Episode 131
OWASP Top 10 gets updated for 2021 and we look at security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, Ghostscript, Git, curl and more.
Sep 17, 2021•14 min
Episode 130
This week we discuss compiler warnings as build errors in the Linux kernel, plus we look at security updates for HAProxy, GNU cpio, PySAML2, mod-auth-mellon and more.
Sep 10, 2021•19 min
Episode 129
This week we look at a malware campaign associated with the popular Krita painting application, plus we cover security updates for MongoDB, libssh, Squashfs-Tools, Thunderbird and more.
Sep 03, 2021•17 min
Episode 128
This week we dive into Trend Micro's recent Linux Threat Report and the release of Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, plus we detail security updates for Inetutils telnetd, the Linux kernel and OpenSSL.
Aug 27, 2021•18 min
Episode 127
This week we look at security updates for Firefox, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, HAProxy, the Linux kernel and more, plus we cover some current openings on the team - come join us ☺
Aug 20, 2021•11 min
Episode 126
This week Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was FIPS 140-2 certified plus the AppArmor project made some point releases, and we released security updates for Docker, Perl, c-ares, GPSd and more.
Aug 13, 2021•13 min
Episode 125
This week we discuss new kernel memory hardening and security development proposals from Ubuntu Security Alumnus Kees Cook, plus we look at details of security updates for WebKitGTK, libsndfile, GnuTLS, exiv2 and more.
Aug 06, 2021•13 min
Episode 124
It's another week when too many security updates are never enough as we cover 240 CVE fixes across Avahi, QEMU, the Linux kernel, containerd, binutils and more, plus the Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla end-of-life.
Jul 30, 2021•14 min
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