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Alpine vs Debian base image vulnerability comparison
A 2026 look at Alpine vs. Debian base image CVEs shows raw vulnerability counts mislead — patch cadence and reachability matter more than distro choice.
Jul 21, 20266 min read
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Outdated container images still running in production
New industry data shows most production containers still run on stale, vulnerable base images months after fixes ship -- here's why, and how to close the gap.
Jul 20, 20268 min read
Container Security
Container registry credential leak trends
2026 data shows container registry credential leaks accelerating as CI pipelines speed up — and why layer-aware scanning, not just final-image checks, is now essential.
Jul 20, 20266 min read
Container Security
Distroless image security trend report
Distroless adoption is up nearly 3x since 2024, but Safeguard's 2026 scan data shows SBOM gaps, missed dependencies, and inflated CVE lists still undermine the hardening it promises.
Jul 20, 20267 min read
Container Security
Kubernetes Helm chart vulnerability trends
New Safeguard research finds most public Helm charts ship risky defaults and stale image pins—here's what the data shows and how to fix it.
Jul 20, 20267 min read
Container Security
Minimal, Non-Root Docker Images for Python: A Best-Practices Guide
CVE-2019-5736 let a malicious container overwrite the host runc binary via root access. Here's how multi-stage, non-root builds close that door for Python apps.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
Container Security
OCI Image Labels and Annotations: A Practical Guide to Provenance and SBOM Linkage
OCI defines 14 standard org.opencontainers.image.* annotation keys, but labels are unsigned metadata — anyone with build access can forge them.
Jul 16, 20266 min read
Container Security
Container escape techniques and defense in depth
CVE-2024-21626 let a leaked file descriptor turn runc exec into host root. Here's how container escapes actually work — and the layers that stop them.
Jul 15, 20266 min read
Container Security
Docker image vulnerability scanning: best practices for CI/CD
Log4Shell hid in countless container images for years before scanning caught it. Here's how to scan base layers and gate builds before that happens again.
Jul 13, 20267 min read
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