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 165

Posted on Friday, Jun 24, 2022

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.

Episode 164

Posted on Friday, Jun 17, 2022

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.

Episode 163

Posted on Friday, Jun 10, 2022

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.

Episode 162

Posted on Friday, Jun 3, 2022

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!

Episode 161

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2022

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.

Episode 160

Posted on Friday, May 20, 2022

Ubuntu get’s pwned again at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, plus we look at security updates for the Linux kernel, RSyslog, ClamAV, Apport and more.

Episode 159

Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2022

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.

Episode 158

Posted on Friday, May 6, 2022

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.

Episode 157

Posted on Friday, Apr 22, 2022

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.

Episode 156

Posted on Friday, Apr 8, 2022

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.