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

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Episode 226

Posted on Friday, Apr 19, 2024

John and Georgia are at the Linux Security Summit presenting on some long awaited developments in AppArmor and we give you all the details in a sneak peek preview as well as some of the other talks to look out for, plus we cover security updates for NSS, Squid, Apache, libvirt and more and we put out a call for testing of a pending AppArmor security fix too.

Episode 135

Posted on Friday, Oct 22, 2021

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS targeted at Tianfu Cup 2021 plus we cover security updates for Linux kernel, nginx, Ardour and strongSwan.

Episode 134

Posted on Friday, Oct 15, 2021

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.

Episode 133

Posted on Friday, Oct 1, 2021

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!

Episode 132

Posted on Friday, Sep 24, 2021

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.

Episode 131

Posted on Friday, Sep 17, 2021

OWASP Top 10 gets updated for 2021 and we look at security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, Ghostscript, Git, curl and more.

Episode 130

Posted on Friday, Sep 10, 2021

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.

Episode 129

Posted on Friday, Sep 3, 2021

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.

Episode 128

Posted on Friday, Aug 27, 2021

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.

Episode 127

Posted on Friday, Aug 20, 2021

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 ☺

Episode 126

Posted on Friday, Aug 13, 2021

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.