Episodes

  • Episode 243

    Episode 243
    Dec 20 2024
    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.
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    24 mins
  • Episode 242

    Episode 242
    Nov 29 2024
    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 inner workings of the /proc filesystem and responsible disclosure as well.
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    20 mins
  • Episode 241

    Episode 241
    Nov 14 2024
    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.
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    18 mins
  • Episode 240

    Episode 240
    Oct 31 2024
    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.
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    36 mins
  • Episode 239

    Episode 239
    Oct 18 2024
    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.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 238

    Episode 238
    Oct 4 2024
    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.
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    32 mins
  • Episode 237

    Episode 237
    Sep 20 2024
    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.
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    16 mins
  • Episode 236

    Episode 236
    Sep 6 2024
    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.
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    18 mins