I ran a brief statistical summary using Netcraft web server data and attrition information, comparing the amount of running web servers to hacked web servers... (True, hackers don't just deface web pages, but it should be a valid sample).
Here's what I found:
In November 2000, for every 1 linux box (any flavor) running a web server that was hacked, 9.6 windows boxes (NT & 2000) were hacked. For December, there were 9.8 windows boxes hacked for every linux box.
If you just compare web defacements to defacements (apples to apples), windows is hacked about 3 times more often than linux, but the above numbers factor in that linux is used about 3 times more as a web server than windows, according to Netcraft.
Of course, these numbers could be 'fuzzy', and I may have missed something, but from what I can tell...
"Linux is 10 times more secure than Windows."
(Rounding up, that is. Microsoft marketing would understand...)
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I ran a brief statistical summary using Netcraft web server data and attrition information, comparing the amount of running web servers to hacked web servers... (True, hackers don't just deface web pages, but it should be a valid sample).
Here's what I found:
In November 2000, for every 1 linux box (any flavor) running a web server that was hacked, 9.6 windows boxes (NT & 2000) were hacked. For December, there were 9.8 windows boxes hacked for every linux box.
If you just compare web defacements to defacements (apples to apples), windows is hacked about 3 times more often than linux, but the above numbers factor in that linux is used about 3 times more as a web server than windows, according to Netcraft.
Of course, these numbers could be 'fuzzy', and I may have missed something, but from what I can tell...
"Linux is 10 times more secure than Windows."
(Rounding up, that is. Microsoft marketing would understand...)