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Canonical
7 February 2017

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

Article Internet of Things

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...

Canonical
7 February 2017

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

Article Internet of Things

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...

Amrisha Prashar
3 February 2017

Canonical
30 January 2017

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

Article Internet of Things

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...

Canonical
30 January 2017

Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Article Cloud and server

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...

Canonical
21 December 2016

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Article Cloud and server

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

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

azeti using Ubuntu Core for process automation in Industrial IoT

Article Internet of Things

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...

Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

Guest
29 September 2016

Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Daniel Nelson from Design Shift, makers of ORWL. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact [email protected] If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source...

Guest
29 September 2016

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016

Why open source matters to the IoT market

Article Internet of Things

With everything becoming connected through IoT, security will be key to its success. And the best way to secure a system is to allow anybody to inspect the code and contribute a patch. The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to become a $4-11 trillion market by 2025, contributing 11% to the global economy,

Maarten Ectors
15 September 2016

Jane Silber
15 July 2016

Notice of Ubuntu Forums breach; user passwords not compromised

Article Canonical announcements

There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site. We take information security and user privacy very seriously, follow a strict set of security practices and this incident has triggered a thorough investigation. Corrective action has been taken, and full service of the Forums has been restored. In the...

Jane Silber
15 July 2016

Brent Clements
14 July 2016

How Canonical Battles Zero-Day Threats

Article Cloud and server

I work for Canonical as a Consulting Architect. Every design I put together I try to secure as best as possible. One reason I came to Canonical was because of the way we handle security updates and our approach to security. This blog post outlines how we handle updates, specifically around zero-day vunerabilities. We...

Brent Clements
14 July 2016

Gustavo Niemeyer
4 May 2016

Security confinement in Ubuntu Core

Article Cloud and server

As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a modern software platform that includes the ability to define rich interfaces between snaps that control their security and confinement, comprehensive observation...

Gustavo Niemeyer
4 May 2016

Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Create trusted compute pools in the cloud

White paper Cloud and server

Security is a big topic and concerns about security in the cloud is often cited by enterprises as a reason for not migrating workloads….featured-article a.button { display: none; }

Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Canonical
21 September 2012

Ubuntu Desktop for the enterprise

White paper Desktop

Ubuntu has become a serious contender for businesses looking for desktop alternatives. As an open-source system, it offers huge licensing savings over proprietary technologies. And it’s far leaner and easier to customise, which helps you minimise management costs and get more from your older hardware. This paper looks...

Canonical
21 September 2012

Server Density deploys Ubuntu to deliver server and website monitoring as a service

Case study Ubuntu

Ubuntu helps Server Density developers innovate services, streamline server admin and increase security Summary Server Density delivers server and website monitoring as a fully managed service, delivering significant infrastructure and management savings for its customers. Until recently, the company used CentOS as its...

Canonical
21 September 2012

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