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"Security"

João Hellmeister
20 January 2025

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

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 Ubuntu tech blog

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 ...

Aaron Whitehouse
30 August 2024

Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu recently released a snapshot service to use the archive as it was at a point in history. This article explains how to integrate this into systems management or update tools. ...

Diogo Sousa
21 August 2024

How Ubuntu keeps you secure with KEV prioritisation

Security Ubuntu tech blog

The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEV) is a database published by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that serves as a reference to help organisations better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity.By having a commitment to prioritise vulnerabilities contained in the KEV, Ubuntu is p ...

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