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

Call him "Michael"

[The Ape With No Name]

I was surprised to see CowboyNeal as the poster.If it were Taco or Timothy, I would assume that this is a dupe. This is more Michael's style. Post a troll article. Comment in the discussion. Mod dissent down. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Re:What if Windows were found most vulnerable?

[black mariah]

The SQL slammer worm was an exploit in MS's SQL server, not Windows, and it was one that was patched MONTHS before the exploit made it into the wild. It was the fault of sysadmins that didn't do their fucking job that it got so big (SoBig?). In case you don't remember, MS had issued an alert months before stating that the easiest way to eliminate the possibility of attack was to CLOSE A FUCKING PORT. But there were a few hundred thousand people that didn't bother patching their systems OR closing all non-essential ports (two grounds for dismissal, IMO).

This is NOT a dumbass way to conduct a study. It is a study on the vulnerability of OS's against SPECIFIC attacks, not generalized attacks such as worms. Can you get this through your thick Linux-spooging-on skulls? What we have here is significant evidence of a PROBLEM. Scoff all you want, but this needs to be looked at NOW.