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 125

Posted on Friday, Aug 6, 2021

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.

Episode 124

Posted on Friday, Jul 30, 2021

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.

Episode 123

Posted on Friday, Jul 9, 2021

Is npm audit more harm than good? Plus this week we look at security updates for DjVuLibre, libuv, PHP and more.

Episode 122

Posted on Friday, Jul 2, 2021

This week we look at some new Linux kernel security features including the Landlock LSM and Core Scheduling plus we cover security updates for RabbitMQ, Ceph, Thunderbird and more.

Episode 121

Posted on Friday, Jun 25, 2021

Ubuntu One opens up two-factor authentication for all, plus we cover security updates for Nettle, libxml2, GRUB2, the Linux kernel and more.

Episode 120

Posted on Friday, Jun 18, 2021

In this week’s episode we look at how to get media coverage for your shiny new vulnerability, plus we cover security updates for ExifTool, ImageMagick, BlueZ and more.

Episode 119

Posted on Friday, Jun 11, 2021

This week we cover security updates for the Linux kernel, PolicyKit, Intel Microcode and more, plus we look at a report of an apparent malicious snap in the Snap Store and some of the mechanics behind snap confinement.

Episode 118

Posted on Friday, Jun 4, 2021

This week we look at DMCA notices sent against Ubuntu ISOs plus security updates for nginx, DHCP, Lasso, Django, Dnsmasq and more.

Episode 117

Posted on Friday, May 28, 2021

This week we’re talking about moving IRC networks plus security updates for Pillow, Babel, Apport, X11 and more.

Episode 116

Posted on Friday, May 21, 2021

With 60 CVEs fixed across MySQL, Django, Please and the Linux kernel this week we take a look at some of these details, plus look at the recent announcement of 1Password for Linux and some open positions on the team too.