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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has dispensed advice aimed at securing Ubuntu installs and followed it up with help for Dixons customers. The NCSC, part of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) exists to make the UK a safer place to do business online and, in an unusual step for a Government …

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    1. Halfmad
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      Re: Victim of its own success

      Makes sense as it becomes more popular it'll become more of a target but Ubuntu and linux in general represent a fairly tiny proportion of desktops and that's where the money is, either hitting home users or as a gateway into the DB servers irrespective of what those run on.

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  2. coderguy
    Meh

    Those numbers look a bit suspect.

    From the link in the article; the title show is "Top 50 Products By Total Number Of "Distinct" Vulnerabilities", Selecting Ubuntu and then 2018 brings up a list of the likes of curl, Kernel and Perl amongst others.

    Hardly Ubuntu specific is it ?.

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    1. sitta_europea Silver badge
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      Re: Those numbers look a bit suspect.

      I'd go further than that.

      Those numbers are completely meaningless, and to me have the look of being compiled by someone with an agenda.

      I'm disappointed that so august a publication as The Register would dignify them with a link.

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  3. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

    Just updated a personal server

    The installer somehow trashed the apt dependency tracking so it spewed errors, said my computer was in an inconsistent state, then the system crashed. Thanks! Some time in the console got the installation resuming. After that, I noticed that live services had their configuration files significantly changed. It wasn't secure at all and I cleaned up as fast as I could. AT&T even sent me an email saying unsafe ports were open. The installer should have turned off every service that received major configuration updates but it left them on. The worst was Samba. Samba was supposed to offer only encrypted CIFS, and it was set to all interfaces. The update turned on all the DNS junk while Samba was still on all interfaces.

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  4. ken jay

    i use debian and wait for you all to write about it

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