Episodes
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 modern software development along the way.
Published 11/14/24
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 threats of the future.
Published 10/31/24
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.
Published 10/18/24
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.
Published 10/04/24
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 permission prompting
in Ubuntu 24.10, a new release of Intel TDX for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and more.
Published 09/20/24
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.
Published 09/06/24
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 Secure Boot,
SBAT, grub, shim and more, plus we look at a vulnerability in GNOME Shell and
the handling of captive portals as well.
Published 08/23/24
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 Prometheus
Alertmanager, OpenSSL, Exim, snapd, Gross, curl and more.
Published 08/09/24
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, phpCAS, EDK II,
Python, OpenJDK and one package with over 300 CVE fixes in a single update.
Published 08/02/24
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, Ruby, Netplan,
FontForge, OpenVPN and a whole lot more.
Published 07/05/24
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.
Published 06/28/24
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 the features
provided by confidential computing, through to the specifics of how this is
implemented in Ubuntu and a look at similar future security technologies that
are on the horizon.
Published 06/20/24
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, WebKitGTK,
amavisd-new, Unbound, Intel Microcode and more.
Published 05/31/24
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 for the Linux
kernel, Firefox, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, idna and more.
Published 05/24/24
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.
Published 05/03/24
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.
Published 04/19/24
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 security
vulnerabilities in the X Server, Django, util-linux and more.
Published 04/12/24
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 and discuss how it
impacts Ubuntu and give some insights for what this means for the open source
and Linux communities in the future.
Published 04/05/24
This week we bring you a sneak peak of how Ubuntu 23.10 fared at Pwn2Own
Vancouver 2024, plus news of malicious themes in the KDE Store and we cover
security updates for the Linux kernel, X.Org X Server, TeX Live, Expat, Bash and
more.
Published 03/22/24
We cover recent Linux malware from the Magnet Goblin threat actor, plus the news
of Ubuntu 23.10 as a target in Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 and we detail
vulnerabilities in Puma, AccountsService, Open vSwitch, OVN, and more.
Published 03/18/24
Andrei is back to discuss recent academic research into malware within the
Python/PyPI ecosystem and whether it is possible to effectively combat it with
open source tooling, plus we cover security updates for Unbound, libuv, node.js,
the Linux kernel, libgit2 and more.
Published 03/08/24
The Linux kernel.org CNA has assigned their first CVEs so we revisit this topic
to assess the initial impact on Ubuntu and the CVE ecosystem, plus we cover
security updates for Roundcube Webmail, less, GNU binutils and the Linux kernel
itself.
Published 03/01/24
This week the Linux kernel project announced they will be assigning their own
CVEs so we discuss the possible implications and fallout from such a shift, plus
we cover vulnerabilities in the kernel, Glance_store, WebKitGTK, Bind and more.
Published 02/16/24
AppArmor unprivileged user namespace restrictions are back on the agenda this
week as we survey the latest improvements to this hardening feature in the
upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, plus we discuss SMTP smuggling in Postfix, runC
container escapes and Qualys' recent disclosure of a privilege escalation
exploit for GNU libc and more.
Published 02/09/24