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| . When taking the economic damage from malware into account over the last twelve months, including the impact of MyDoom, NetSky, SoBig, Klez and Sasser, Windows has become the most breached computing environment in the world accounting for most of the productivity losses associated with malware - virus, worm and trojan - proliferation. |
They also said that BSD and MacOS were the least breached systems. Oddly enough Linux, and it's various flavors, were the most breached online 24/7 opperating system.
Isn't that nice to know? So you should all go out and switch to FreeBSD now. ;)
In the words of some other person online, "NEVAR!"
Yay for (from what I know of FreeBSD) one of the least used operating systems and it's new least breached award! You might not of been sarcastic when you wrote that post, though. :P
Windows has become the most breached computing environment in the world............................whoa, that's news?? NEWS?? goddamnit, they're probably running 3.11??
well, that's not really what they said.. Windows is the result of the most economic damage due to viruses and malware, but not manually hacked.. Linux is the most breached (not your script kiddie type attack, but manually hacked).
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| The study also reveals that Linux has become the most breached 24/7 online computing environment in terms of manual hacker attacks overall and accounts for 65.64% of all breaches recorded, with 154,846 successfully compromised Linux 24/7 online computers of all flavours. The number of successful manual hacker attacks against Microsoft Windows based online computers has remained steady and accounts for 25.19% of all breaches recorded, |
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what it means is you should switch to FreeBSD. If you set the security level to a high enough level the system clock can not be adjusted by more than one second at a time, not even the root account can change it by more than one second. It doesn't seem like much, but it really is. As they said, there are alot of flavors of linux out there - so many that alot of them probably don't go through the level of testing they should before they are released.
I myself use FreeBSD, i know when i get it that it will be stable and run, no fuss. A few quick changes to kernel settings, and a recompile of the kernel and generally the systems are good to go until the hard drive crashes. :D
