Servers are attacked on a statistical basis, film at eleven?
[Posted September 17, 2003 by corbet]
| From: |
| Leon Brooks <leon@cyberknights.com.au> |
| To: |
| rnaraine@jupitermedia.com |
| Subject: |
| Servers are attacked on a statistical basis, film at eleven? |
| Date: |
| Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:37:18 +0800 |
| Cc: |
| letters@lwn.net |
Hi Ryan!
From http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3076701 -
> Mi2g, which provides digital risk management research, said 67
> percent of all successful overt digital attacks was done against
> the Linux OS
Linux == 67% of breaches.
> the company found that 12,892 Linux online servers [...] were
> successfully breached. During the same period, 4,626 Windows
> servers were victims
Ergo, Windows == 24% of breaches.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/09/01/september_2003_web_server_survey.html
> Active Sites
> Developer [...] September 2003 Percent Change
> Apache [...] 13371621 67.45 0.17
> Microsoft [...] 4839624 24.23 -0.21
Do you notice any striking similarities here?
Would you care to republish that article, noting that the attacks are on
a statistically one-for-one basis despite the fact that the Linux
servers are a more attractive target, often being loaded gunwhale-down
with useful tools as they are?
Cheers; Leon
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