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Blog posts tagged
"Security"


Felipe Vanni
12 March 2024

Canonical’s showcase at HPE Tech Jam 2024

AI Article

Canonical, a leading advocate for open-source technology, is excited to announce its participation in the HPE Tech Jam 2024, set to take place in Atlanta and Vienna. This prestigious event will convene presales consultants and enterprise architects to delve into groundbreaking strategies powered by HPE’s edge-to-cloud workload solutions a ...


Aaron Whitehouse
24 November 2023

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 3

Cloud and server Article

Applying updates across a fleet of multiple Ubuntu instances is a balance of security and service uptime. We explore best practices to maximise stability. ...


Canonical
21 November 2023

Canonical announces the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers

Canonical announcements Article

Production-ready, secure-by-design, ultra-small containers with chiselled Ubuntu Canonical announced today the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers which come with Canonical’s security maintenance and support commitment. Chiselled Ubuntu containers are ultra-small OCI images that deliver only the application and its runtime ...


Aaron Whitehouse
21 November 2023

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 2

Cloud and server Article

You probably know that it is important to apply security updates. You may not be clear how to do that. We are going to explain best practices for applying Ubuntu updates to single instances and what the built-in unattended-upgrades tool does and does not do. ...


Lech Sandecki
26 October 2023

Running OpenSSL 1.1.1 after EOL? Stay secure with Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Article

A few months ago, the OpenSSL Project announced the end of life of OpenSSL 1.1.1. It is used by thousands of software components included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with many organisations relying on version 1.1.1. Rest assured that the Ubuntu security team will continue to maintain important security fixes in OpenSSL ...


ijlal-loutfi
9 October 2023

Restricted unprivileged user namespaces are coming to Ubuntu 23.10

Security Confidential computing

Ubuntu Desktop firmly places security at the forefront, and adheres to the principles of security by default. This approach caters to both everyday users and organisations with specific compliance requirements. As such, Ubuntu ensures that its recommended security configurations are equally robust, easy to understand and readily accessibl ...


Aaron Whitehouse
5 October 2023

Securing open source software dependencies in the public cloud

Cloud and server Article

Building stable and secure software requires understanding build systems and having a plan for vulnerabilities in your software dependencies. ...


Lech Sandecki
3 October 2023

Zenbleed vulnerability fix for Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

On 24 July 2023, security researchers from Google’s Information Security Engineering team disclosed a hardware vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 family of microprocessors. They dubbed this vulnerability “Zenbleed” (CVE-2023-20593), evoking memories of previous vulnerabilities like HeartBleed and hinting at its possible impact. In respon ...


Canonical
26 September 2023

CVE 우선순위 지정을 통한 오픈 소스 보안

Security Security

최근 연구에 따르면 엔터프라이즈 시장의 애플리케이션 중 96%가 오픈 소스 소프트웨어를 사용합니다. 오픈 소스 환경이 점점 더 세분화됨에 따라 조직에 대한 잠재적인 보안 취약점의 영향을 평가하는 작업이 엄청날 수 있습니다. 우분투는 가장 안전한 운영 체제 중 하나로 알려져 있습니다. 하지만 그 이유는 무엇일까요? 우분투 보안팀은 매일 알려진 취약점에 대해 업데이트된 소프트웨어 패키지를 수정하고 릴리스하기 때문에 ...


Canonical
19 September 2023

라이브패치(Livepatch)에 새로운 13개월 슬라이딩 지원 기간이 있습니다. 여러분에게 어떤 의미가 있을까요?

Security Security

라이브패치는 시스템을 즉시 재부팅할 필요 없고 런타임에 중요하고 높은 보안 커널 공통 보안 취약성 및 노출(CVE)을 수정하는 유용한 툴입니다. 그러나 정기적인 유지 관리 기간 및 재부팅을 대체하는 용도로 사용해서는 안 됩니다. 좋은 기업 정책에는 시스템이 안정적이고 안전하게 유지되도록 라이브패치와 정기적인 재부팅이 모두 포함되어야 합니다. 그 이유는 펌웨어 또는 장치 드라이버 업데이트와 같은 일부 시스템 CVE는 ...


Aaron Whitehouse
12 September 2023

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1

Cloud and server Article

The LTS philosophy, releases, updates and repositories explained Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. In this b ...


ijlal-loutfi
7 September 2023

TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Discover Ubuntu’s latest security enhancement: TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption (FDE). This experimental feature in Ubuntu 23.10 offers improved data protection without the need for passphrases ...