Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 04:44:53 -0800 From: Jeff Chan <jeffc@supranet.net> To: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: London-based security firm mi2g finds BSDs least breached Message-ID: <1984953503.20041105044453@supranet.net>
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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. [...] -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@supranet.net http://www.supranet.net/
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