London-based security firm mi2g finds BSDs least breached

[Jeff Chan]

  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1817&e=9&u=/cmp/20041104/tc_cmp/51202323&sid=96120750

> Study: Linux "Most Breached" OS
> 
> Wed Nov 3,11:31 AM ET
>       
>        Technology - TechWeb
> 
> Apple Computer's OS X and the open-source BSD operating system
> provide the "world's safest and most secure" computing
> platforms, according to London-based security firm mi2g. The
> report also describes Linux (news - web sites) as the world's
> "most breached" online computing environment, followed by
> Microsoft's Windows operating system. 

> According to mi2g, the firm's Intelligence Unit study analyzed
> more than 235,000 successful attacks against "permanently
> connected -- 24/7 online -- computers" worldwide between
> November 2003 and October 2004. According to the study,
> computers running Linux accounted for about 65 percent of all
> recorded breaches, while Microsoft Windows-based systems
> accounted for about 25 percent of such attacks. Successful
> attacks against OS X and BSD-based online systems accounted for
> less than five percent of the worldwide total.
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