On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:53:36PM -0800, John Rigg wrote: > > How do you address the zone-h site? > > www.zone-h.org > > ZONE-H TODAYS VERIFIED ATTACKS > > 251 single IP > 292 mass defacements > > Linux (81.4%) > Win 2000 (10.3%) > Win 2003 (4.8%) > FreeBSD (1.3%) > Unknown (0.7%) > Win NT9x (0.6%) > MacOSX (0.2%) > ... (0.7%) >
I can only parrot what I've read elsewhere, but it's my understanding that such statistics ignore the severity of the attacks. Most owned machines are M$ because it both has holes and has deep holes. I accept the premise that badly configured Linux boxes will increase in number with popularity. I would expect a badly configured Linux box to be intrinsically more secure than a badly configured windoze box, but maybe not as secure as a well-configured winzode box. These discussions get touched off regularly by various on-line articles from Forbes to Slashdot, and AFAICT, more than half of the articles have a bias. Having a bias doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong, but as we've all seen in M$-funded white papers, sometimes it means you're using statistics to lie and spread FUD. We have real security people on this list (I am not one of them), and I've noticed that none of them has ever recommended switching to windoze. Sure, it's a Linux list so there is self-selection, but this is an opportunity for them to weigh in, so ... Phil? Tracy? Anybody? Is it time to switch to windoze? Zone-H says Linux is the most attacked OS. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
