A fortnightly podcast talking about the latest developments and updates from the Ubuntu Security team.

Latest Episode

Episode 238

Posted on Friday, Oct 4, 2024

For the first in a 3-part series for Cybersecurity Awareness month, Luci Stanescu joins Alex to discuss the recent CUPS vulnerabilities as well as the evolution of cybersecurity since the origin of the internet.

Episode 237

Posted on Friday, Sep 20, 2024

John and Maximé have been talking about Ubuntu’s AppArmor user namespace restrictions at the the Linux Security Summit in Europe this past week, plus we cover some more details from the official announcement of permission prompting in Ubuntu 24.10, a new release of Intel TDX for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and more.

Episode 236

Posted on Friday, Sep 6, 2024

The long awaited preview of snapd-based AppArmor file prompting is finally seeing the light of day, plus we cover the recent 24.04.1 LTS release and the podcast officially moves to a fortnightly cycle.

Episode 235

Posted on Friday, Aug 23, 2024

A recent Microsoft Windows update breaks Linux dual-boot - or does it? This week we look into reports of the recent Windows patch-Tuesday update breaking dual-boot, including a deep-dive into the technical details of Secure Boot, SBAT, grub, shim and more, plus we look at a vulnerability in GNOME Shell and the handling of captive portals as well.

Episode 234

Posted on Friday, Aug 9, 2024

This week we take a deep dive behind-the-scenes look into how the team handled a recent report from Snyk’s Security Lab of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in wpa_supplicant plus we cover security updates in Prometheus Alertmanager, OpenSSL, Exim, snapd, Gross, curl and more.

Episode 233

Posted on Friday, Aug 2, 2024

This week we take a look at the recent Crowdstrike outage and what we can learn from it compared to the testing and release process for security updates in Ubuntu, plus we cover details of vulnerabilities in poppler, phpCAS, EDK II, Python, OpenJDK and one package with over 300 CVE fixes in a single update.

Episode 232

Posted on Friday, Jul 5, 2024

This week we deep-dive into one of the best vulnerabilities we’ve seen in a long time regreSSHion - an unauthenticated, remote, root code-execution vulnerability in OpenSSH. Plus we cover updates for Plasma Workspace, Ruby, Netplan, FontForge, OpenVPN and a whole lot more.

Episode 231

Posted on Friday, Jun 28, 2024

A look into CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalogue is on our minds this week, plus we look at vulnerability updates for gdb, Ansible, CUPS, libheif, Roundcube, the Linux kernel and more.

Episode 230

Posted on Thursday, Jun 20, 2024

This week we bring you a special edition of the podcast, featuring an interview between Ijlal Loutfi and Karen Horovitz who deep-dive into Confidential Computing. Ranging from a high-level discussion of the need for and the features provided by confidential computing, through to the specifics of how this is implemented in Ubuntu and a look at similar future security technologies that are on the horizon.

Episode 229

Posted on Friday, May 31, 2024

As the podcast winds down for a break over the next month, this week we talk about RSA timing side-channel attacks and the recently announced DNSBomb vulnerability as we cover security updates in VLC, OpenSSL, Netatalk, WebKitGTK, amavisd-new, Unbound, Intel Microcode and more.

Episode 228

Posted on Friday, May 24, 2024

The team is back from Madrid and this week we bring you some of our plans for the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release, plus we talk about Google’s kernelCTF project and Mozilla’s PDF.js sandbox when covering security updates for the Linux kernel, Firefox, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, idna and more.