
Configure automatic security updates on Ubuntu (How to secure a web server – Part 3)
One of the key aspects to security on Linux systems is the regular updates the community makes to the distribution and packages. A lot of those updates are meant to improve security and fix potential vulnerabilities. For this reason, it’s important to keep your system up to date, especially on a publicly available server. But doing it manually would be a time consuming process, it would involve regularly login into your server and running updates. Instead, it’s much easier to configure a tool that will do it automatically for you. In this article we’ll learn how to enable automatic security updates on Ubuntu, using unattended-upgrades.