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 175

Posted on Friday, Sep 2, 2022

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.

Episode 174

Posted on Friday, Aug 26, 2022

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.

Episode 173

Posted on Friday, Aug 19, 2022

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.

Episode 172

Posted on Friday, Aug 12, 2022

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.

Episode 171

Posted on Friday, Aug 5, 2022

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.

Episode 170

Posted on Friday, Jul 29, 2022

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.

Episode 169

Posted on Friday, Jul 22, 2022

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.

Episode 168

Posted on Friday, Jul 15, 2022

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.

Episode 167

Posted on Monday, Jul 11, 2022

This week we bring you part 3 of Camila’s cybersecurity buzzwords series - looking at blockchain, zero trust and quantum / post-quantum security.

Episode 166

Posted on Saturday, Jul 2, 2022

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.