Linux Getting Harder To Crack

Posted by timothy on Monday January 17, 2005 @02:55PM from the pride-goeth-before-a-fall dept.

AlanS2002 points out today's article from Iain Thomson on vnu.net, which says that "Linux systems are getting tougher for hackers to crack, security experts have reported today," summarizing "A study conducted by the Honeynet Project has found that it takes about 3 months before a unpatched Linux machine will be owned, compared with about 72 hours in the past. According to a report on the study default installations are now more secure with less services enabled by default, added to this is newer versions of software such as OpenSSH being more secure. Interestingly Solaris 8 and 9 did not fare so well."

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well something that gets progressivly easier by 0xdeaddead · 2005-01-17 14:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

Would be windows. And that sucks. If anything its a sliding windows of vulnerabilities... I mean how many people run telnet? And yet since everyone is so busy banging away at ssh telnet is probably way safer...Bottom line, nothing is secure, its what is en vogue...
Im now going to switch to OS/2! nobody uses that so it ought to be super secure!