Out of all the more than 7,000 vulnerabilities published in the first half of 2019, only a small fraction (659) will ever have an exploit created for, and less than 1% will actually be exploited in a large scale attack, in the “wild.”
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Computer security company Skybox Security released the mid-year update to its 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report, analyzing the vulnerabilities, exploits, and threats in play over the first half of 2019, and among the key findings of the report is the rapid growth of vulnerabilities in cloud containers.
In a nutshell, cloud containers are lightweight and lower overhead virtual machines (VMs) that can be used to replace traditional VMs in many cloud computing deployments because of their speed and simplicity. However, such ease of deployment can lead to security lapses with old container images including known vulnerabilities quickly replicated and deployed throughout a public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
According to the Silicon Valley-based startup, vulnerabilities in container software have increased by 46% in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, and by 240%…
