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The World's Safest Operating System

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the torturing-the-data-until-it-confesses dept.

fredrikr writes "UK-based security firm mi2g has analyzed 17,074 successful digital attacks against servers and networks. The results are a bit surprising. The BSD OSes (including FreeBSD and Mac OS X) proved to be the systems least likely to be successfully cracked, while Linux servers were the most vulnerable. Linux machines suffered 13,654 successful attacks, or 80 percent of the survey total. Windows based servers enjoyed a sharp decline in successful breaches, with only 2,005 attacks."

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  1. Re:Overt vs Covert by canajin56 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm, lets do some in-depth research of our own, then: Slashdot poll!

    The last thing I hacked was:

    • *BSD
    • Linux
    • OSX
    • Windows
    • Unix
    • Teh Gibson!

    I'm sure it would be at least as accurate ;)

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  2. Re:Fun and games with statistics by ZigiSamblak · · Score: 5, Funny

    You got it all wrong, there's no problems or hacks in Windows. Coming pre-hacked is a feature!

  3. Re:Overt vs Covert by TMB · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last thing I hacked was Cowboy Neal.

  4. Re:Overt vs Covert by ted_nugent · · Score: 5, Funny

    You stay out of Cowboy Neal's backdoor!

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