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"Security"

Luci Stanescu
28 February 2025

How to conduct a vulnerability assessment

Security Article

The realm of information security is fraught with jargon, as anyone who has come across vulnerability-related terms can tell you. To complicate matters further, some of these terms are used interchangeably or in contexts outside of computing. This can muddy the waters for people looking to learn about vulnerability assessments – so in thi ...

Canonical
6 February 2025

Canonical achieves ISO/SAE 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards

Automotive Article

Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a globally respected certification provider. This milestone highlights Canonical’s leadershi ...

João Hellmeister
20 January 2025

A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 3 – Setting the roadmap and demonstrating NIS2 compliance.

Ubuntu Article

In this third and final part of the series, I’ll provide some tips on how to set up your roadmap and effectively demonstrate compliance without overburdening your teams.  If you’re just joining the fun now, in our two previous editions we covered who NIS2 applies to and what requirements it sets out. Be sure to ...

João Hellmeister
15 January 2025

A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 1 – Understanding NIS2 and its scope

Ubuntu Article

The EU NIS2 directive, which calls for strengthening cybersecurity across the European Union, is now active in all member states. Join me for this 3-part blog post series  in which I’ll explain what it is, help you understand if it is applicable to your company and how you can become NIS2 compliant. In this first ...

eslerm
14 January 2025

Rsync remote code execution and related vulnerability fixes available

Hardening Article

Canonical’s security team has released updates of the rsync packages for all supported Ubuntu releases. The updates remediate CVE-2024-12084, CVE-2024-12085, CVE-2024-12086, CVE-2024-12087, CVE-2024-12088, and CVE-2024-12747. ...

Canonical
4 December 2024

Canonical announces Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program 

Canonical announcements Article

Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source vulnerability scanning organizations. The goal is to ensure vulnerability data is more transparent and standardized, while improving on-platform security for Ubuntu users through more ...

eslerm
19 November 2024

Needrestart local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available

Ubuntu Article

Qualys discovered vulnerabilities which allow a local attacker to gain root privileges in the needrestart package (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, and CVE-2024-11003) and a related issue in libmodule-scandeps-perl (CVE-2024-10224). The vulnerabilities affect Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Canonical’s securit ...

Luci Stanescu
28 October 2024

Imagining the future of Cybersecurity

Ubuntu Security

October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you will have listened to us talk about significant moments that have shaped the ...

Lech Sandecki
23 October 2024

6 facts for CentOS users who are holding on

Cloud and server Article

Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Find six useful facts to get started! ...

Kris Sharma
17 October 2024

Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for financial services?

Financial Services Article

Financial services are powered by technology. The customer experience is increasingly driven by data, with tailoring of products and services to reflect individual behaviors and preferences. All of this rests on a foundation of secure, stable technology that can support agility and flexibility to adapt to customer needs, whilst at the sam ...

Luci Stanescu
26 September 2024

CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available

Ubuntu Article

Four CVE IDs have been assigned that together form an high-impact exploit chain surrounding CUPS: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177. Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, libcupsfilters and libppd packages for all supported Ubuntu LTS releases. The updates remedi ...

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