Ubuntu Security Podcast

Ubuntu Security Podcast

Ubuntu Security Team

Episodes 244
Avg. Duration 18m
Activity Dormant
Since Aug 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2024

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A fortnightly podcast talking about the latest developments and updates from the Ubuntu Security team, including a summary of recent security vulnerabilities and fixes as well as a discussion on some of the goings on in the wider Ubuntu Security community.

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Episode 243

Dec 20, 2024 24m

Overview It’s the end of the year for official duties for the Ubuntu Security team so we take a look back on the security highlights of 2024 for Ubuntu and predict what is coming in 2025. 2024 Year…

Episode 242

Nov 29, 2024 19m

Overview This week we dive into the details of a number of local privilege escalation vulnerablities discovered by Qualys in the needrestart package, covering topics from confused deputies to the…

Episode 241

Nov 14, 2024 18m

Overview This week we take a deep dive into the latest Linux malware, GoblinRAT to look at how malware is evolving to stay stealthy and evade detection and how malware authors are learning from…

Episode 240

Oct 31, 2024 36m

Overview For the third and final part in our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Alex is again joined by Luci as well as Diogo Sousa to discuss future trends in cybersecurity and the likely…

Episode 239

Oct 18, 2024 39m

Overview In the second part of our series for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Luci is back with Alex, along with Eduardo Barretto to discuss our top cybersecurity best practices. Get in…

Episode 238

Oct 04, 2024 31m

Overview 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…

Episode 237

Sep 20, 2024 16m

Overview 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…

Episode 236

Sep 06, 2024 18m

Overview 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…

Episode 235

Aug 23, 2024 17m

Overview 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…

Episode 234

Aug 09, 2024 29m

Overview 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…

Episode 233

Aug 02, 2024 24m

Overview 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…

Episode 232

Jul 05, 2024 29m

Overview 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…

Episode 231

Jun 28, 2024 19m

Overview 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…

Episode 230

Jun 20, 2024 21m

Overview 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…

Episode 229

May 31, 2024 13m

Overview 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…

Episode 228

May 24, 2024 15m

Overview 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…

Episode 227

May 03, 2024 24m

Overview 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,…

Episode 226

Apr 19, 2024 23m

Overview 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…

Episode 225

Apr 12, 2024 19m

Overview 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…

Episode 224

Apr 05, 2024 28m

Overview 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…

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