Blog posts tagged
"Security"

196 posts

Canonical
2 May 2018

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Article Desktop

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices...

Canonical
2 May 2018

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu: What you need to know

Article Cloud and server

As details of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities1 have become clearer a number of statements have been published by the multiple vendors affected; Canonical has issued advisories and updates on fixes and mitigations, the latest of which includes a first round of Spectre mitigations. However, most of these...

Christian Reis
24 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Spectre mitigation updates available for testing in Ubuntu Proposed

Article Cloud and server

Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality.  This week we published candidate Ubuntu kernels providing mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 (ie, Spectre / Variants 1 & 2) to their respective -proposed pockets for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful), 16.04 LTS (Xenial), and 14.04 LTS (Trusty)....

Dustin Kirkland
17 January 2018

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities

Article Canonical announcements

  For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown   Unfortunately, you’ve probably already read about one of the most widespread security issues in modern computing history — colloquially known as “Meltdown” (CVE-2017-5754) and...

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Chris Johnston
13 December 2017

FIPS 140-2 Certified Modules for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

We are pleased to announce that officially certified FIPS 140-2 level 1 cryptographic packages are now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu Advantage Advanced customers and as a separate, stand-alone product. In 2016 Canonical began the process of completing the Cryptographic Module Validation Program to obtain...

Chris Johnston
13 December 2017

Canonical
12 December 2017

Canonical helps DeNA lower operational cost of always-on service

Article Cloud and server

DeNA is one of the most popular mobile and online platforms in Japan, offering games, e-commerce, entertainment, healthcare, and automotive services. The always-on DeNA infrastructure is powered by Ubuntu. When Canonical released Livepatch in October 2016, with the ability to patch servers without downtime, DeNA saw an...

Canonical
12 December 2017

Canonical
7 December 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: December 7, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
7 December 2017

Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Ubuntu: What’s the security story?

Webinar Cloud and server

Of course you know Ubuntu. Your developers use it everywhere. But you’re from an enterprise, where the IT Security team has the final say. As they should. Before your app built on Ubuntu can go into production, you need their signoff. So what’s the security story with Ubuntu? How is it hardened? Are there best

Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

Article Internet of Things

When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the...

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 2017

Article Cloud and server

  The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
16 November 2017

Canonical
9 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 9, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
9 November 2017

Canonical
26 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 26, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
26 October 2017

Canonical
12 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
12 October 2017

Canonical
5 October 2017

Security Team Update: October 5, 2017

Article Cloud and server

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com...

Canonical
5 October 2017

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