Canonical has shared some of the new features it plans to introduce with Ubuntu 24.10, due in October. A big change is that Nvidia users will now begin using Wayland out of the box.
To secure mobile devices, such as laptops and smartphones, against unauthorized physical data access, employing Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is a popular defense. This technique is effective if the device is always shut down when unattended. However, devices are often suspended instead of switched off. This leaves confidential data such as the FDE key, passphrases and user data in RAM which may be read out using cold boot, JTAG or DMA attacks. These attacks can be mitigated by encrypting the main memory during suspend. While this approach seems promising, it is not implemented on Windows or Linux. We present FridgeLock to add memory encryption on suspend to Linux. Our implementation as a Linux Kernel Module (LKM) does not require an admin to recompile the kernel. Using Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) allows for easy and fast deployment on existing Linux systems, where the distribution provides a prepackaged kernel and kernel updates. We tested our module on a range of 4.19 to 5.3 ke
Canonical heeft versie 24.04 van Ubuntu uitgebracht. 'Noble Numbat' is een long term support-release die is gebaseerd op Linux-kernel 6.8 en Gnome 46 als desktopomgeving gebruikt