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Story: Linux servers 'attacked more often'

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I had to laugh at this comment: "With Windows servers, they are so expensive that they are more likely to be deployed by professionals...not experimenters"

LOL, give me a break, every computer you buy comes with a copy of ms windows. One must spend a bit more effort to obtain a linux powered system - so ms windows is indeed the platform of choice for joe average, while serious linux users tend to be among the intelligentsia.

The problem here is the methodology of the study - a rather goofy methodology, once you look at it, and one guaranteed to yield bizarre results. We all know, for instance, that the main security issue of the past year has been the proliferation of microsoft worms and virii, one after another. So this so-called study begins by discarding all the serious microsoft security issues, then focuses on what's left, which would by design, look mainly at non-microsoft systems.

I'd love to see their methodology for determining the number of "successful" linux attacks, if only to satisfy my morbid curiosity - I'm sure it will be quite amusing, given the firm's history and reputation. Go look them up on google for a heads-up!

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