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Story: Linux servers 'attacked more often'

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did they control for the number of servers? and how did they distinguish servers from other computers? I'd guess that they measured fewer windows "servers", and have conveniently defined all those compromized windows desktops as "non-servers".

this sort of result is simply blatantly false on its face. look around you: how many windows boxes do you see, and how many of their owners live in fear of the next worm? in my environment (I'm a university sysadmin), I see many hundreds of windows boxes, *most* of which have been compromised in the past year. I also see somewhat fewer (still hundreds) of linux boxes, of which perhaps one a year is compromised, mainly because someone has forgotten it.

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