Slashdot Mirror
Linux Most Attacked Server?
Anonymous guy who can't remember his login sent in a story from the Globe And Mail that says "During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent. A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers."
Funding provided by Microsoft....
Where ever you go, there you are.
We're number one! We're number one! Woo! Party!
Er... wait, what? Is this a good thing?
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Good god sir, do you know where you are posting this? ;]
Anonymous guy who can't remember his login
That would be WilliamGates.
No doubt the Linux faithful are going to bay and scream about this report, but there's something interesting buried in the article.
OOOO!!!! AGGGGHHHHH!!! AWWWWWW!!! EEEEEEEEEEEKKKK! Bay!!111
All "enterprise" grade distributions (and their desktop counterparts) have an update system that you are mentioning. RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, etc.
It's free too, dumbass.
a system has to be up to be attacked. given the excessive downtime and frequent reboots inherent in all MS OSes, they would be subject to fewer attacks.
Sure, we all know that Linux is on more Web Servers than MS.
But consider this: Do people attack the server because it's running Linux, or because it's hosting the SCO website?
I think the CONTENT drives far more hacks than the OS it's on...
The longer I'm a member of the Human Race, the more I believe Apocalypse is a valid solution.
A nice idea posting the text, but I believe you'll find that the Globe and Mail extremely difficult to /. It loaded successfully every time but once for me two years ago today, and the news that day was even more interesting than Linux vs. Windows.
This is /. Obviously you meant to write "denying" in place of "divining".
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
Wow. I get a lot of those too. Thank goodness I deleted that pesky "default.ida" file from my Apache web server so I could be safe! :)
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Statistics are worthless, 70% of all people know that.
65% of successful attacks came against SCO, which MUST be running Linux since they developed it.
Obligatory MallRats quote:
Needless to say, the regular server administrator for that site is in an uncomfortable spot now
"You mean like the backseat of a Volkswagen?"
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Okay... do the editors read the links anymore?
You must be new here
Turn s60 photos into awesome videos with mScrapbook for all S60 3rd edition phones!
Well, I'm sure the end result will be the same. :-)
Heh, the best was when I was helping to run the web server at my high school (this happened back in 98 or so). I was logged in from home checking email or something when I got a "write" from root that said, "I think you have some security holes..." I ended up in a ytalk with him and it was some dude from kentucky who had broken his leg and had nothing better to do or something.
I honestly can't remember if we ever reported him to anyone or not, but we reinstalled right quick (I think he'd used an nfs exploit and then backdoored one of our other services, can't remember which). In any case it was obvious what had happened - the logs we so full of "help! someone's trying to hack me!" type messages that it was even funny at the time. Especially since nobody ever went to our webpage and we just used the machine as a local quake server anyway...
The funny thing is, that they left out the 3.8 million windows "zombies" that were used to attack the linux boxes.
/* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */
They must be running one of those cracked Linux boxes...
I think anyone reading ./ is a qualified expert in this department.
"It's a very tangled subsystem." --Windows kernel guru
against Linux servers. They were SCO press releases...
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
The possessive form of "it" is "its", not "it's".
Well, I've always liked to say it thus:
The possessive of it isn't its, it's its.