Ubuntu Security Podcast

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is finally released and we cover all the new security features it brings, plus we look at security vulnerabilities in, and updates for, FreeRDP, Zabbix, CryptoJS, cpio, less, JSON5 and a heap more.

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...

This week we cover the recent reports of a new local privilege escalation exploit against the Linux kernel, follow-up on the xz-utils backdoor from last week and it's the beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - plus we talk...

It's been an absolutely manic week in the Linux security community as the news and reaction to the recent announcement of a backdoor in the xz-utils project was announced late last week, so we dive deep into this issue...