[olug] Linux survives longer on the net

Craig Wolf CJWolf at mpsomaha.org
Mon Dec 27 22:20:19 UTC 2004


Unpatched that is, 3 months before compromised:
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56200335

Here is the pdf on it:
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/trends/life-linux.pdf 

Windows survives 4 minutes:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/54201306

Interesting reading to say the least.  Guess I can go another month or
so before worrying about patching my SuSE server.  8)  LOL.  

Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283




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