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The Web's 20 Worst Security Flaws
XsynackX writes "The SANS Institute released its Top-20 list of the biggest vulnerabilities on the web today. The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list is actually a compilation of two lists--the top 10 Windows vulnerabilities and the top 10 Unix vulnerabilities. The list goes into almost more detail than any one person could ever take in on individual security flaws, but provides a wealth of knowledge for those who like to get in-depth. Interestingly enough, the browser section of the Windows vulnerabilities lists everyone's favorite browser Internet Explorer with 15 flaws and Mozilla with only 7."
Is slashdotting a vulnerability?
...seems to feel that posting a link to it on slashdot is a vunerability.
How many computers are too many?
I can see plume of smoke from the servers at the Sans Institute! Succumb to the /. effect!
Windows with 95% has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities
Unix with 5% also has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities.
I think the stats speak for themselves in which is more secure. If Win boxes can take such a phenomenal market share and still only have the same number of 'top' vulnerabilities, that's putting it 19 times more secure.
RST
But surely changing your passwords every week is good? (Well, against external attackers - not so good against internal attackers if you have to write your password on a PostIt and stick it to your monitor).
Do we *really* need to keep harping on it like a bunch of smug self-righteous motherfuckers?
Yes, because it makes our penises feel bigger.
NEVER stick your password post-it on the monitor! It goes under the keyboard.
this isn't a sig. i type this (including the two dashes), every time i post, just to make it look like a sig.
Generally, with automatic update turned on, and the ocasional glance at the Apple section on /., you should be fine.
That's precisely why you should stick it to the monitor - nobody will find it because they will be busy looking under the keyboard! Cunning, eh?
flossie
Write now. Defend liberty
Yes, because it makes our penises feel bigger. Is that feel bigger, or appear bigger to other people?
So when I run a Windows emulator under Linux, do I get all 20 of them?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
annnndddd whhhhooossshhh.... there goes the joke.
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