Security researchers find more than 1,600 malicious Docker Hub images
Security researchers warn developers about shared container images. This after finding malicious activity in 1652 publicly available Docker Hub images.
Sysdig researchers sound the alarm in their analysis. Developers in particular should pay attention, as they often use publicly available contai... Read more
Docker Official Images Now Available on AWS Container Registry
The move completes Docker's integration with Amazon's Graviton service
Docker has announced the availability of Docker Official Images directly from Amazon Web Servicesc (AWS). The Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (Amazon ECR Public) is a registry service provided by Amazon to manage con... Read more
Docker reports increased pulls from Docker Hub
The number of pulls from Docker Hub in Q2 increased to 42 billion in Q2 of 2021. The sharp rise marks an increase of 12 billion from 30 billion pulls that Docker recorded in Q4 of 2020. In total, Docker claims the total number of pulls from Docker Hub now stands at 396 billion for all time as of Au... Read more
Docker imposes pull limits, downplays effect on users
Stricter enforcement comes as part of their effort to become financially viable.
Docker has announced that it is finally going to actually enforce container pull limits for non-paying users. The policy announcement came in a blog post by Docker VP of Products Donnie Berkholz.
The company will... Read more
Amazon Web Services to launch its own public container registry
AWS's move is in response to Docker Hub imposing pull limits on some classes of customers.
Amazon Web Services is planning to create its own public container image registry. The initiative is in direct response to Docker’s decision to impose pull rate limits on Docker Hub.
The Docker Hub is... Read more
Misconfigurations in root account of top 20 most common Docker containers
Sun 20 percent of the 1,000 most common Docker containers on the Docker Hub portal are affected by misconfiguration. This increases the chance that user systems are exposed to attacks under certain circumstances, according to Jerry Gamblin, principal security engineer at Kenna Security.
According to... Read more