October 6, 2020

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Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical publishes curated container images to help secure software supply chains

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical publishes curated container images to help secure software supply chains

A good deal of software development now relies on open source images, but it can be hard for businesses to know if they’re introducing security flaws by using them. Canonical – the company behind Ubuntu Linux – is addressing this by publishing the LTS (Long Term Support) Docker Image Portfolio, a curated set of secure container application images, on Docker Hub. LTS Images are built on trusted i

nfrastructure, in a secure environment, with guarantees of stable security updates. Canonical and Docker will collaborate on Docker Official Images and the LTS Docker Image Portfolio to bring the best of the two [Continue Reading]

Author: Ian Barker

Date: 2020-11-24

URL: https://betanews.com/2020/11/24/canonical-container-images-secure-supply-chains/

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Enterprise hits and misses - HR tech gets a hard look Uber and Lyft get an election day reprieve and algorithms get a fairness backlash

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Tailscale has reached general availability

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Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the good old days of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote work results in a corresponding burden of security. This reduces productivity. Systems and approaches dont scale without s
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The high price of Brexit - the 16 billion cost of the UK not securing a data adequacy deal with the EU and it impacts US firms as well

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UK telecom companies face big fines under new security law

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Telecom companies in Britain face hefty fines if they don’t comply with strict new security rules under a new law proposed in Parliament on Tuesday that is aimed at blocking high-risk equipment suppliers like China’s Huawei.
ZTE is still a threat to the US says the FCC

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Operators could be fined 100000 per day for failing to comply with Huawei ban

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