Episode 183
This week we look at a recent report from Elastic Security Labs on the global Linux threat landscape, plus we look at a few of the security vulnerabilities patched by the team in the past 7 days.
Dec 02, 2022•14 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 182
After a longer-than-expected break, the Ubuntu Security Podcast is back, covering some highlights of the various security items planned during the 23.04 development cycle, our entrance into the fediverse of Mastodon, some open positions on the team and some of the details of the various security updates from the past week.
Nov 25, 2022•13 min
Episode 181
It's the release of Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, and we give you all the details on what's new and improved, with a particular focus on the security features, plus we cover a high priority vulnerability in libksba as well.
Oct 21, 2022•15 min
Episode 180
Ubuntu Pro beta is announced and we cover all the details with Lech Sandecki and Eduardo Barretto, plus we cover security updates for DHCP, kitty, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, the Linux kernel, .NET 6 and more.
Oct 14, 2022•36 min
Episode 179
Finer grained control for unprivileged user namespaces is on the horizon for Ubuntu 22.10, plus we cover security updates for PCRE, etcd, OAuthLib, SoS, Squid and more.
Sep 30, 2022•16 min
Episode 178
You can't test your way out of security vulnerabilities (at least when writing your code in C), plus we cover security updates for Intel Microcode, vim, Wayland, the Linux kernel, SQLite and more.
Sep 23, 2022•11 min
Episode 177
Alex talks with special guests Nishit Majithia and Matthew Ruffell about a recent systemd regression on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS plus we cover security updates for Dnsmasq, the Linux kernel, poppler, .NET 6, rust-regex and more.
Sep 16, 2022•31 min
Episode 176
On this week's episode we dive into the Shikitega Linux malware report from AT&T Alien Labs, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, curl and Zstandard as well as some open positions on the team. Join us!
Sep 09, 2022•13 min
Episode 175
An increased rate of CVEs in curl is a good thing, and we'll tell you why, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, Firefox, Schroot, systemd and more.
Sep 02, 2022•18 min
Episode 174
This week we cover the debate around the decision in Ubuntu 22.10 to disable presenting platform security assessments to end users via GNOME, plus we look at security updates for zlib, PostgreSQL, the Linux kernel, Exim and more.
Aug 26, 2022•17 min
Episode 173
This week we take a look at the recent announcement of .NET 6 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, Booth, WebKitGTK, Unbound and more.
Aug 19, 2022•12 min
Episode 172
Finally, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is released and we look at how best to upgrade, plus we cover security updates for NVIDIA graphics drivers, OpenJDK, Django, libxml, the Linux kernel and more.
Aug 12, 2022•22 min
Episode 171
This week we dig into what community sponsored security updates are all about, plus Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS gets delayed by a week and we cover security updates for MySQL, the Linux kernel, Samba, Net-SNMP and more.
Aug 05, 2022•23 min
Episode 170
This week we're diving down into the depths of binary exploitation and analysis, looking at a number of recent vulnerability and malware teardowns, plus we cover security updates for FreeType, PHP, ImageMagick, protobuf-c and more.
Jul 29, 2022•11 min
Episode 169
It's the 22.10 mid-cycle roadmap sprint at Canonical this week plus we look at security updates for Git, the Linux kernel, Vim, Python, PyJWT and more.
Jul 22, 2022•15 min
Episode 168
This week we rocket back into your podcast feed with a look at the OrBit Linux malware teardown from Intezer, plus we cover security updates for cloud-init, Vim, the Linux kernel, GnuPG, Dovecot and more.
Jul 15, 2022•14 min
Episode 167
This week we bring you part 3 of Camila's cybersecurity buzzwords series - looking at blockchain, zero trust and quantum / post-quantum security.
Jul 11, 2022•32 min
Episode 166
From the deep-web to encryption we decode more cybersecurity buzzwords, plus we cover security updates for Squid, Vim, the Linux kernel, curl and more.
Jul 02, 2022•32 min
Episode 165
This week Camila dives into the details on some of the most prolific buzzwords flying around the cybersecurity community, plus we cover security updates for BlueZ, the Linux kernel, Intel Microcode, QEMU, Apache and more.
Jun 24, 2022•34 min
Episode 164
More Intel CPU issues, including Hertzbleed and MMIO stale data, plus we cover security vulnerabilities and updates for ca-certificates, Varnish Cache, FFmpeg, Firefox, PHP and more.
Jun 17, 2022•12 min
Episode 163
This week we dig into some of the details of another recent Linux malware sample called Symbiote, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, vim, FreeRDP, NTFS-3G and more.
Jun 10, 2022•14 min
Episode 162
This week we cover security updates for dpkg, logrotate, GnuPG, CUPS, InfluxDB and more, plus we take a quick look at some open positions on the team - come join us!
Jun 03, 2022•16 min
Episode 161
This week we take a look into BPFDoor, a newsworthy backdoor piece of malware which has been targeting Linux machines, plus we cover security updates for Bind, Vim, Firefox, PostgreSQL and more.
May 27, 2022•15 min
Episode 160
Ubuntu get's pwned again at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, plus we look at security updates for the Linux kernel, RSyslog, ClamAV, Apport and more.
May 20, 2022•14 min
Episode 159
This week we bring you part 2 of our look at the new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release and what's in it for security, plus we cover security updates for DPDK, OpenSSL, Cron, RSyslog, Curl and more.
May 15, 2022•19 min
Episode 158
Microsoft's Nimbuspwn sets the Linux security media ablaze but where there's smoke there's not always fire, plus we bring you the first part of a 2 part series looking at some of the security features in the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release.
May 06, 2022•18 min
Episode 157
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is officially released 🎉 and so this week we take a quick look at the new features and enhancements, with a particular focus on security, plus we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, Firefox, Django, Git, Gzip and more.
Apr 22, 2022•19 min
Episode 156
This week we bring you the TL;DL (too-long, didn't listen 😉) version of Camila's recent 4-part Ubuntu hardening series, plus we look at security updates for Twisted, rsync, the Linux kernel, DOSBox, Tomcat and more.
Apr 08, 2022•26 min
Episode 155
It's an off-by-one error in the podcast this week as we bring you part 4 of Camila's 3-part Ubuntu hardening series, plus we look at security updates for Thunderbird, OpenVPN, Python, Paramiko and more.
Apr 01, 2022•33 min
Episode 154
It's PIE🥧 for everyone this week as Python finally becomes a position independent executable for Ubuntu 22.04, plus Camila brings you the third part in her Ubuntu server hardening guide and we cover security updates for FUSE, Bind, Apache, the Linux kernel and more.
Mar 25, 2022•41 min
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