posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 10:54 AM
by
demiliani
Linux hacked more often than Windows??
Cameron Reilly points me to this new article on ZDNet: Linux hacked more often than Windows...
An analysis of hacker attacks on online servers in January by security consultancy mi2g found that Linux servers were the most frequently violated, accounting for 13,654 successful attacks, or 80 per cent of the survey total. Windows ran a distant second with 2,005 attacks.
The differences between the number of attacks is really big... will be true? Why all this differences? Maybe because Linux is open source and so the code is free to analize? Or maybe the major Servers in the world are based on Linux (or Unix) Platforms (Apache now is the most widespread web server). Linux is certainly not less secure then Windows...
Also, a study by the mi2g Intelligence Unit reveals that the world's safest and most secure online server Operating System (OS) is proving to be the Open Source family of BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin.