Computers Gone Wild
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| In Symantec's biannual "Internet Security Threat Report," released Monday,
| the company reports that China has the highest number of
| botnet-infected computers, accounting for 26% of the world's total.
| The U.S. came in second, accounting for 14% of the worldwide total.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/16/symantec-bots-reports-tech-security-cx_ll_0319symantec.html?partner=yahootix
Nothing is even said about the severity of these and urgency.
Related:
How secure are Linux, Window and Mac OS?
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| Overall it looks like the Linux kernel turns out to be the most
| secure system. Not only does it have virtually no security holes
| that lead to system access, it's also very resilient to remote
| attacks, two areas where both Windows and Mac OS X aren't doing
| very well.
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http://www.masuran.org/node/29
Linux hacks rare as hens' teeth, says survey
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| Adding more fuel to the Linux versus Windows fire, a US research firm
| this week released a survey that noted only eight percent of Linux
| developers had ever seen a virus infect their systems.
|
| [...]
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| A similar survey by Evans last year found that nearly 60 percent of
| non-Linux developers admitted they'd been victimised by security
| breaches, and 32 percent had been hit three or more times.
|
| Does that mean Linux is a more secure OS? Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's
| Linux analyst, certainly thinks so.
|
| "It's not surprising that Linux systems aren't hacked to the degree that
| Windows-based machines can be exploited," he said in a statement. "The
| reasons for the greater inherent security of the Linux OS are simple, more
| eyes on the code mean that less slips by and the OS is naturally going to
| be better secured."
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http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=15911
2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary
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| As far as "straight-out-of-box" conditions go, both Microsoft's
| Windows and Apple's OS X are ripe with remotely accessible
| vulnerabilities.
|
| [...]
|
| The UNIX and Linux variants present a much more robust
| exterior to the outside. Even when the pre-configured server
| binaries are enabled, each system generally maintained its
| integrity against remote attacks.
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http://www.omninerd.com/2007/03/26/articles/74
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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