The Register
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming
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The Register
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…
The Register
8 months ago
Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut
The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…
The Register
1 year, 2 months ago
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows
Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…
The Register
1 year, 7 months ago
'Alarming' bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years
Update now: Qualys says vulnerabilities give root and are 'easily exploitable' Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in Ubuntu Server's needrestart utility that allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access without any user interaction.…
The Register
2 years, 3 months ago
Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree
In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 years After multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies.…
The Register
4 years, 4 months ago
Ubuntu applies security fixes for all versions back to 14.04
Update those boxes pronto – yes, we're looking at you, users of Trusty Tahr and Xenial Xerus Ubuntu has issued a batch of updates that cover the default as well as the AWS and KVM flavours for the current short-term release 21.10, both the original 5.04 and OEM 5.14 builds for the current 20.04 LTS release, as well as 18.04, and, surprisingly, even 16.04 and 14.04.…