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Study: Linux server attacks declining

Publication:ComputerWorldDate:Jan 21 2005
Reporter:Matthew Broersma

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Attackers are no longer bothering to attack average Linux systems, apparently because there's so much more money to be made from invading Windows, according to security researchers.

The Honeynet Project, which sets up Linux networks in order to observe attack activity, found that the life expectancy of such systems has dramatically increased from two years ago. Its 2004 findings, published recently, found that an unpatched Linux system lasts, on average, three months before it is compromised. That's compared with about 72 hours for 2001-02.




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