Trust and security in the Snap Store

Canonical Articles, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Developer, Security, Snap, snapcraft mayo 15, 2018

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net effect is […]

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Canonical Articles, Ciencia, Conocimientos Generales, Security, snapcraft, Snaps, usn mayo 2, 2018

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) have been issued for […]