In its latest release, Ubuntu Core 20, Canonical has gone to great pains to make it the most secure IoT and embedded Linux available on the market today. According to a third-party security audit by ...

After many months of painstaking effort, the problems caused by Microsoft’s Windows 8 “Secure Boot” technology are finally being solved for Linux users. Now, the capability is quickly spreading, and ...

A minotaur is a mythical creature that is half man, half bull; but when it comes to Linux, it's not a myth, it's the code name for the Ubuntu 23.10 operating system officially released today. At the ...

Security maintenance service for Ubuntu LTS releases offers CVE protection and security updates for some 23,000 packages beyond the main OS. Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro, a Linux security maintenance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A high-rated security vulnerability in the Secure Boot ...

Canonical has announced that it’ll begin using a piece of software called chrony for more secure time management, starting with Ubuntu 25.10. End users don’t need to worry about this change too much, ...

In October, a DDoS attack on Dyn’s infrastructure took down a big chunk of the internet, making sites like Amazon and Twitter inaccessible. It was the first major attack involving IoT (internet of ...

Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.… On Monday, Ubuntu security notice USN-7867-1 revealed two security holes in the new ...

There can also be some performance hassles, typically revolving around application startup times—we've seen the snap version of a complex package such as the Gimp photo editor take four to five times ...