Linux most breached OS

[Bill Vermillion]

It was Sun, Nov 21 10:34  when Mike Rathburn said "Mia kusenveturilo estas
plena da angiloj. And continued:

> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> |[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of John Esak
> |Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:29 AM
> |To: filePro mailing list
> |Subject: OT: Linux most breached OS

> |According to the research firm's report, Linux accounted for 65% of the
> |154,846 systems that were found to be hacked. Windows-based operating
> |systems were second, accounting for 25% of the breached
> |systems examined in
> |the study.

> |The safest systems were those based on BSD Unix, including
> |Apple's Mac OS X
> |operating system. These systems accounted for 4% of the
> |breached systems.

> ---------------------------

> Thanks for posting John.

> The numbers they quote fall right in line with the fact that
> at least 65% of all internet-connected systems are Linux-based
> systems, 25% Microsoft-based systems, and 4% other. The same
> argument is made on the desktop, where 90% of all desktops that
> get infected are Microsoft-based desktops. Of course, they're
> 90% of that market too.

> The question to ponder would be: If Microsoft were 65% of
> the web server market, would the study reflect the same 25%
> vulnerability ratio?

The orignal story from Mi2g seemed to be truncated dependending
on what magazine printed it.

The Mi2g report did NOT limit the report to the web server
market, but just 'internet-connected' systems and there is a
difference. Many MS users are running on private networks behind
firewalls so they aren't directly on the network.

The other part of the original Mi2g report was questioned by others
as Mi2g exlcuded viruses, worms and associated malwware from their
studion on operating systems.  

The story was about trageted-hacker attacks, while the viruses
worms, et al are usually from automated attacks.

As that article concludes there are many more reasons to attack
BSD and OS/X - which were listed as the most secure.  And
there are a lot of attempted attacks.

I also get as high as 400 attempted ssh connections per/day
per/server, however those are quite often automated and are
coming primarly from SE Asia and S.America.

The idea that MS gets attacked and breached more often because
there are more of them are the same arguments MS usesr.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com