Ubuntu

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The flaw, classified as high severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560, impacts polkit, an authorization service that is present by default in many Linux distributions. The security hole was discovered by Kevin Backhouse of the GitHub Security Lab. On Thursday, the researcher published a blog post detailing his findings, as well as a video showing the…

Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Microsoft has added support for Linux and Android to Microsoft Defender ATP, its unified enterprise endpoint security platform. Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection is designed to help enterprises prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced cyber threats on company endpoints from one central point. Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux Microsoft Defender ATP initially offered protection…

Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Ubuntu 17.10 brings enhanced security and productivity for developers

Canonical released Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie. On the cloud, 17.10 brings Kubernetes 1.8 for hyper-elastic container operations, and minimal base images for containers. Enhanced security and productivity for developers The Atom editor and Microsoft Visual Studio Code are emerging as the new wave of…