On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although SANS is a well known org, this is my personal opinion: I'm
sure Mac OS
X attacks will be on the rise, because more and more people are
using it. Because of the open source base, however, any underlying
security holes will be
fixed much more often.
Moreover, since the Open Source base is BSD, it's been pretty
thoroughly poked and prodded over the *decades* it's been in wide
release.
As attacks may be on the rise with more people using it,
so will security fixes, because more and more holes will be found
with more
people using it.
Actually, there is no evidence attacks ARE on the rise. SANS is
reporting known vulnerabilities, and the reason so many of them are
there for OS X is because Apple's been pretty diligent at reporting
them when they're fixed, as all the ones reported by SANS are fixed.
SANS completely ignored a vast number of vulnerabilities reported for
Linux in this report for no reason I can imagine, instead giving
really basic advice like "make sure you know what processes are
running on your servers, and choose good passwords." Note SANS didn't
even *consider* Linux as anything but a server OS.
In fact, the *entire* report could have been stated thus:
"Keep your systems and programs up-to-date and choose hard passwords."
This covers everything they mention in the Top 20 Vulnerabilities.
--
Bruce Johnson
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