>From personal experience, there might be some truth to this story...
I mean, the very nature of linux and the common application of linux machines
as servers makes it very attractive to hackers- because it's more fun to hack
for some reason, and the returns are quite attractive. When I was in college,
people weren't very interested in compromising Windows machines. The only
reason they hacked Windows PCs was to get usernames/passwords for the linux
server. And most of the time when a machine gets compromised, only text-based
terminal access is available (no gui). As everyone here knows, there is a lot
more fun stuff you can run from bash compared to a Windows command prompt :)
When I started working, our linux test machine got rootkitted A LOT! As far as
we can tell though, nobody touched the windows machines on our network (ok,
maybe we just didn't know about it).
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From: Jerome Gotangco <[email protected]>
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 22:17:58
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux most hacked
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM, jan gestre <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not FUD, it's just the way it is, incompetent people are abound even
> in government. One thing's for sure, no matter what system you're running as
> long you're connected to the www, you're vulnerable.
They should be more concerned with the GhostNet than site defacements!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet
Whether it holds water or not, it should still have more priority with
national security!
--
Jerome G.
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Blog: http://blog.gotangco.com
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