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How to Cheat at Securing Linux

By James Stanger

Book information

Publisher
Syngress
Year
2007
ISBN
1597492078, 9781597492072, 9780080558684
Open Library ID
OL12493418M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10206480 bytes)
Edition
Pap/Psc
Pages
430\430
Topic
Education
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Linux servers now account for 33% of all networks servers running worldwide (Source: IDC). The top 3 market share holders in the network server space (IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell) all use Linux as their standard operating system for the majority of their servers designed for medium to large size businesses. As with any technologies, increased usage results in increased attention from malicious hackers. For years a myth existed that Windows was inherently less secure than Linux, because there were significantly more attacks against Windows machines than Linux. But this was a fallacy. There were more attacks against Windows machines because there were simply so many more Windows machines to attack. Now, the numbers tell the exact OPPOSITE story. Linux servers account for 1/3 of all servers worldwide, but in 2005 there were 3 times as many high-severity security vulnerabilities discovered on Linux servers.

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