Unpatched Linux Lives 3 Months on Internet

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday December 23, 2004 @07:34PM from the dies-after-reading-livejournal dept.

Allnighterking writes "The Honeypot project Honeynet.org has released their study on the expected lifetime of an unpatched default Linux install. If some of you remember AvanteGarde recently did a study of its own with several versions of Windows products and found that the average lifetime was about four minutes. Internet Week has an article on the study and the PDF with the full details of the study is available on Honeynet.org. Needless to say, from my viewpoint this is a good reason to limit Windows installations in IT that any PHB and/or Smiling Man can understand. Have them put into a spreadsheet and see what this kind of security means to their bottom line."

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Question about Red Hat by identity0 · 2004-12-23 21:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I know this isn't a help forum, but I have a question...

I have an old Red Hat box sitting around, version 9 (last one before Fedora), I think. I'm using it as a file server using Samba & NFS on my home LAN, which is behind a NAT on a cable modem. Should I be worried about my RH box becoming compromised? Do I have to upgrade?