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All Alpine Linux Docker images, since v3.3, are impacted, Cisco Talos said today in a security alert. The issue was first discovered back in August 2015, ...
Alpine Linux Docker images available via the Docker Hub contained a critical flaw allowing attackers to authenticate on systems using the root user and no password. For three years, some Alpine ...
Rumor has it that Docker Inc., the company behind Docker containers, is planning to switch from Ubuntu to the lightweight Alpine Linux OS as the host environment for Docker images. “Incidentally ...
The official Alpine Linux Docker image has over 10 million downloads. The vulnerability was fixed and closed on March 8, 2019, but it could have been solved sooner as it was rediscovered and ...
News briefs for May 10, 2019. Alpine Linux Docker images available on Docker Hub shipped for three years with unlocked root accounts. Threatpost reports that "For three years, some Alpine Linux Docker ...
Typically seen embedded in devices or appliances, Alpine Linux got a big boost when it was selected to replace Ubuntu as the base image for Docker. Security, reliability, and solid development ...
A single person or group may have made as much as $90,000 over 10 months by spreading 17 malicious images that were downloaded more than 5 million times from Docker Hub, researchers said Wednesday.
Software containerization company Docker Inc. today announced the launch of Docker Hardened Images, a new service that curates a catalog of security-hardened, enterprise-grade container images that ...