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Dustin Kirkland
11 April 2017

FAQs: Ensuring the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical recently announced that the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Canonical is offering Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), which provides important security fixes for the kernel and the most essential user space packages in Ub ...

Guest
28 March 2017

Battlestar solution

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts suggest that by 2020, 20bn to 30bn IoT devices will be connected to networks worldwide. Almost certainly, the tactics employed by Colonel Saul Tigh in this clip from episode 201 of Batt ...

Canonical
22 March 2017

Webinar: How to ensure the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu 12.04

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Many enterprises still run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but updates will end soon. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to 14.04 LTS or 16.04 LTS. For some this is easy but for others, particularly for larger deployments, upgrading can be complex. Watch this on-webinar to learn: How Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users will be impacted ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner, the total number of connected devices will reach 6.4 billion by the end of this year. From connected homes, to autonomous vehicles, to futuristic smartdust, the Internet of Things h ...

Canonical
14 March 2017

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

  Canonical announced the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release almost 5 years ago, on April 26, 2012. As with all LTS releases, Canonical has provided ongoing security patches and bug fixes for a period of 5 years. The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the end-of-life of Ubunt ...

Canonical
7 February 2017

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and Netflix. The ...

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an app-enabled home gateway and the first Ubuntu-Core-enabled consumer device. Snaps and Ubuntu Core are key enablers of the “out-of-the-box” solution, sustainable auto-update and security functi ...

Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from over 2,000 ...

Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the most secure Linux distribution out of the box.These slides try to briefly explain:what we do to ...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

azeti using Ubuntu Core for process automation in Industrial IoT

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Do you require IoT technologies to be running smoothly 24 hours a day? Can you not afford mission critical scenarios? Azeti, a provider of IoT technologies take these situations seriously and as a result have chosen Ubuntu core to provide more stable, efficient and secure distribution to the IoT equipment they monitor and maintain. azeti ...

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