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>For any X, getting rooted is still often a matter of someone with 1000 botnet nodes to burn running a for loop against an IP range. At which point, your odds o
by meowface 12y ago
>For any X, getting rooted is still often a matter of someone with 1000 botnet nodes to burn running a for loop against an IP range. At which point, your odds of getting rooted are the product of how desirable that target is to write for loops against and how long it has been since you last applied security updates.
If you're looking at all Internet-facing servers in aggregate, yes, but if you know what you're doing then the odds of getting owned by a random botnet are very slim. Assuming you have a good security posture, your risks are dedicated and intelligent attackers and 0-days, not botnets scanning for low hanging fruit.
- JoachimSchipper 12y agoCareful, there - it's easy to forget to patch one site out of some hundred-odd. Big organizations are hard. (But yes, a single competent admin who doesn't take holidays will usually have pretty decent security.)
- meowface 12y agoOh yes, once you have more than a few employees you become much more at risk of that. I was assuming a scenario of one sys admin managing a small set of servers.