The World's Safest Operating System

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."

Comments

Exactly what I was thinking

[empaler]

I don't understand why anyone would publish a study that is so loosely and poorly substantiated; that would be like looking at a Syrian prison and count the number of syrians imprisoned, and then on that basis summise that "Syrians are more criminal than south africans, since there are hundreds of syrians and not a single south african." /Paven

Re:Microsoft?

[taped2thedesk]

Yeah, right after MS made the switch from ASP to PHP :-p

Re:Fun and games with statistics

[Safety Cap]

Windows users are less likely to run a webserver ~.

Huh? If you install Windows Server, it has IIS and FTP server turned on by default. I believe Redmond finally got a clue with XP and disabled that "out of the box" feature. Go to your average company and http to any of the file servers. Nine times out of ten, you'll get the default IIS page.

be default

[UID500]

bsd systems are more secure than *most* linux systems by having most services turned off at install. a box is only as secure as it's admin makes it. but this comes with more ease on a bsd system.