I don’t. I run software whose maintainers I trust to provide regular security updates.
Of course there’s some software I have installed that doesn’t fit that criteria. But I also minimize my attack surface by exposing the bare minimum and enabling extra security features where I can.
My distribution (archlinux) notifies of critical vulnerabilities that require user action. There’s a news mailing list.
After that I rely on social network (Mastodon mostly) or lemmy for news, as vulnerabilities often get some conversation. Apart from that, software i’m really interested in I also follow through RSS so I get news when they update for their vulnerabilities -that is when the vulnerabilities are not self inflicted as the xz case-.
Arch Linux (like some other distros) also has a security tracker: https://security.archlinux.org/
Fediverse and RSS mostly.
I actually have automated security updates on all my servers. Also in general i run greenbone at home that does daily scans of all the VLANS/networks I have at home.
Mailing list provided by my distro. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
Didn’t know this existed. Just subscribed. Thanks
you just made me look for my distros security list, I never even thought of that!
I’m subscribed to https://bugalert.org/ RSS feeds, but it seems they haven’t had any activity since October last year.
Does anyone know what happened to them?
Lucky I only have to worry about ones from Cisco or FortiNet and both have RSS feeds that I have linked into Slack at work to tell us when a new patch is out or a new psirt is released.
i subscribed for fedora mailist a few days ago and their talk awas helpful for me to notice that i was one of the affected, just subscribe to your distro blog/mail/etc
I tend to find out about vulnerabilities before it hits the news outlets from the rss feed at https://seclists.org/oss-sec/
Other than that, I’ve got a bunch of other security feeds I follow and also have automated updates with just about everything.
I do regular automated updates. For anything requiring human intervention like the xz thing I trust Lemmy and YouTube to keep me updated. No dedicated news source because if I were to freak out about every new vulnerability found I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Why does the xz thing require human intervention?
If you had it on a computer that is accessible via SSH from the internet you should proceed under the assumption that it was compromised. Which means you should reinstall from a safe medium and change your keys and passwords.
Seeing my colleagues, I fear that the answer from them is “That’s the neat part, you don’t!”
Same here. Our servers are so out of date that we might not have a version of xz with any commits from Jia Tan at all.
I don’t think up-to-date Debian stable even got it before it was discovered. No prod servers should be affected
Used to follow the RHEL security lists but they recently retired those as well. Could really use a replacement.
the worst ones end up on https://slashdot.org/ e.g.:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/426644
I read it like twice per day. However, my software updates should fix most automatically without me even knowing what was going on.
I rely on notifications from
glsa-checkor my distro’s package manager. I was notified about a problem withxz-utilson Thursday evening, but didn’t see anyone post about it until Friday morning.glsa-checkis a command-line tool included with the gentoolkit package in Gentoo Linux. Its primary function is to scan your system for installed packages that are vulnerable according to Gentoo Linux Security Advisories (GLSAs). GLSAs are official notifications from the Gentoo security team about security vulnerabilities that affect packages in the Gentoo repository.
