Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections

A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are...

Top security talks from KubeCon Europe 2025

Many of the talks at KubeCon Europe, Europe’s largest open source community conference, were related to security. Let's discuss some of our favorites...

CVE-2024-48887

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-04-08 15:53:00+00:00| seen| https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/fortinet-urges-fortiswitch-upgrades-to.html 2025-04-08 17:40:17+00:00| seen| https://bsky.app/profile/cyberalerts.bsky.social/post/3lmczgcbtcy2e 2025-04-08 19:08:09+00:00| seen|...

CVE-2025-21210

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-01-14 17:29:48+00:00| seen| https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2025/1/14/the-january-2025-security-update-review 2025-01-14 18:17:15+00:00| seen| https://bsky.app/profile/cve-notifications.bsky.social/post/3lfpud2edey2j 2025-01-14 18:41:01+00:00| seen|...

CVE-2024-43594

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2024-12-10 17:33:56+00:00| seen| https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2024/12/10/the-december-2024-security-update-review 2024-12-10 17:53:46+00:00| seen| https://infosec.exchange/users/cve/statuses/113629799580426668 2025-01-07 16:45:47+00:00| seen|...

A Quick Look at CES 2022

The first thing I noticed about CES this year was COVID’s impact on the event, which was more than just attendance size. A large amount of the technology focused on sanitation, everything from using light to sanitize surfaces on point-of-sale systems to hand-washing stations. When I attend events...