Its not like we didn't already know this but...

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:44:06PM -0600, RacerX wrote:
> Sent to me by a friend -
> -------------------------
> 
> Surprise.
> 
> According to a study the British security firm mi2g, Linux is the world's 
> "most breached" OS and is exploited more frequently than Windows. The 
> company recently analyzed more than 235,000 successful attacks against 
> computers that were permanently connected to the Internet during the past 
> year and concluded that Linux was responsible for most of the successful 
> exploits.
> 
	[[ .... (malware, &c. ]]

> ... BSD-based machines make up a small percentage of the 
> installed base of permanently connected machines. In all probability, 
> those machines weren't attacked simply because there was little incentive 
> to do so, not because of any inherent superiority over Linux- or 
> Windows-based systems.
> 

	This study raises questions of how the Linux machines were
	breachede, by whom and for what reasons.  Also, questions
	about the malware.  It also implies that there is a 
	(desperate[?]) need for security programs to detect malware.

	This is an opportunity for guys with internals and security
	savvy to earn (the old fashioned way), oh, a few hundred 
	$million.  Scan src code.

	gary


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