When Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 in April, one of the biggest changes was support for a new way to install applications. But snaps aren’t just for Ubuntu anymore. Canonical has announced that it’s ...

Going forward, all newly registered apps on the Snap Store will be manually reviewed by the Canonical engineering teams - and furthermore, the developers of these apps will have to accept a background ...

The Snap Store, where containerized Snap apps are distributed for Ubuntu’s Linux distribution, has been attacked for months by fake crypto wallet uploads that seek to steal users’ currencies. As a ...

A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable attackers to promote malicious Linux packages to unsuspecting users. The ...