[Mac_crypto] Mac OS X 'most secure servers'

[Sander Tekelenburg]

At 17:06 -0800 UTC, on 2004/02/22, Vinnie Moscaritolo wrote:

> <http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=7980>

[...]

> To arrive at its conclusions, mi2g analysed 17.074 successful digital
> attacks against servers and networks. It states: "With Linux accounting for
> 13,654 breaches, Windows for 2,005 breaches followed by BSD and Mac OS X
> with 555 breaches worldwide in January 2004."

Doesn't sound like they took into account that Mac OS X is probably being
used far less still than Linunx/Windows. They should have posted percentages
if they wanted to tell something meaningful.

[...]

> Company executive chairman DK Matai said: "The swift adoption of Linux last
> year within the online government and non-government server community,
> coupled with inadequate training and knowledge on how to keep that
> environment secure when running vulnerable third party applications, has
> contributed to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux
> servers. Migration to Open Source can be fool's gold without adequate
> training and understanding of the impact that third party applications have
> on overall safety and security."

Are they claiming that adaptation of Mac OS X coupled with inadequate
training and knowledge on how to keep that environment safe would not have
led to a mess?

(I went over to mi2g's site to see if there is more depth to their report,
but the want 29.38 pound for it.)


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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>