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Blog posts tagged
"livepatch"


Ellen Arnold
2 December 2017

Ubuntu: What’s the security story?

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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 ...


Canonical
16 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 16, 2017

Cloud and server Article

  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: [email protected] During the last we ...


Canonical
9 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 9, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
2 November 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: November 2, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
26 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 26, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
12 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017

Cloud and server Article

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: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
19 July 2017

Kernel Team Summary – July 19, 2017

Cloud and server Article

This newsletter is here to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team.There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode.Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Kernel Team ...


Canonical
8 June 2017

Kernel Team Summary- June 8, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Kernel Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the kernel team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-kernel channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu ...


Canonical
6 June 2017

Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!

Canonical announcements Article

We are pleased to announce that we have extended our Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS! The Canonical Kernel Livepatch Service enables runtime correction of critical security vulnerabilities in the kernel without the need to reboot. It is the best way to ensure that machines are safe at the kernel level, ...


Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Cloud and server Article

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at ubuntu.com/livepatch or update to newest kernel and reboot. Linux kernel vulnerability 7th December 2016 (LSN-0014-1) Details: A race condition in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel. A ...


Dustin Kirkland
31 October 2016

Dirty COW was livepatched in Ubuntu within hours of publication

Cloud and server Article

If you haven’t heard about last week’s Dirty COW vulnerability, I hope all of your Linux systems are automatically patching themselves…Why?  Because every single Linux-based phone, router, modem, tablet, desktop, PC, server, virtual machine, and absolutely everything in between — including all versions of Ubuntu since 2007 — was vulnerabl ...