Re: [ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
On 09/18/2010 05:14 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: Those that are in the IT field managing Servers and Networking, Admin, Security : Would you agree on this: Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, as it dominates the server industry, and that's where the important data and real meat of attacks are attempted. Last when I heard Security through obscurity was a deprecated concept. So getting popular and being a niche market doesn't make much sense. The real thing is how much secure model it implements for security and secondly is the server badly configured. In this case nothing helps. -- Manish -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.comwrote: Those that are in the IT field managing Servers and Networking, Admin, Security : Would you agree on this: Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, as it dominates the server industry, and that's where the important data and real meat of attacks are attempted. I am just a student,, but would like to add my view on this... I don't think Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, Of course servers hold good amount of data to attracts black hats. No matter what the operating system is, Windows based or Linux based, servers are made secure, what are dedicated sys admins, security guys work for??? Mostly servers are secures towards these viruses and malwares, and most of the cases users intervention is very much required, which hardly happens on servers... If one wants to attack on those, they can try XSS, Sql Injection DDOS, exploit some applications like apache, crack passwords, and thousands of other ways... I would like to counter on another point Linux is more secure than windows, I feel not very true. One can build a very secure system with Windows based os, and one can be compromised easily who is using Linux based system. So my point is, Users those who configure the system make or break their system. I feel it is true that, out of box Linux is more secure. This is just what I feel. This is said as if it is currently happening. So your views. Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9826809#post9826809 Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
Those that are in the IT field managing Servers and Networking, Admin, Security : Would you agree on this: Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, as it dominates the server industry, and that's where the important data and real meat of attacks are attempted. This is said as if it is currently happening. So your views. Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9826809#post9826809 Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: Those that are in the IT field managing Servers and Networking, Admin, Security : Would you agree on this: Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, as it dominates the server industry, and that's where the important data and real meat of attacks are attempted. This is said as if it is currently happening. So your views. Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9826809#post9826809 //lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in It may be the target. But linux is secured. The linux admin can make it secured as we can not inhale corbon-di-oxide, even we it is there all around us. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:52:42 +0530 Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote The linux admin can make it secured as we can not inhale corbon-di-oxide, even we it is there all around us. I am really curious now :-) How exactly does one not inhale carbon-dioxide? Extra points if this is a Linux-based solution. Regards, Gora -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
