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• jiggy2011 14y ago
  Pwning Linux boxes is big business, since there's a good probability that it's a server with some nice bandwidth behind it.
  • pmelendez 14y ago
    And that's why the got hacked all the time. On the other hand, the argument of comparing servers and desktops PCs is flawed. The technical skills of an user behind a desktop windows PC in average is at most fair. The technical skills of an user behind a Linux server is very high, so no wonder why there are more viruses on Windows in comparison with Linux.
    • jiggy2011 14y ago
      The article isn't very explicit about what it means by it's claim. Does it mean just plugging an unpatched windows machine into the internet and walking away or does it mean somebody actively using it to surf websites which may have malicious applets etc? Also doesn't specify whether it's naked on the internet or behind some kind of NAT/firewall. If we're just talking about random bots port scanning netblocks and looking for daemon banners that indicate vulnerable services old linux distros could be quite bad in this regard. I had my desktop pwned back in ~1999 because it came with a vulnerable version of telnetd enabled by default.
  • laumars 14y ago
    Not to mention databases with thousands of user details. Desktops will have -if you're lucky- just a households worth of data, and even then you'd have to probe for that.