Study: Hackers Prefer Linux

While everyone loves to pick on Microsoft, and they are certainly not without their share of faults, other operating systems have their issues as well. According to data collected by the London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit, Linux is successfully compromised more than any other operating system. During the month of August Linux accounted for 67% of the successful and verifiable attacks. According to a quote from D.K. Matai, mi2g chairman: "The proliferation of Linux within the on-line server community coupled with inadequate knowledge of how to keep that environment secure when running vulnerable third-party applications is contributing to a consistently higher proportion of compromised Linux servers." Of course, you have to keep in mind that statistics are unreliable. We don't know how many total servers the numbers were gathered from or what percentage of those servers is Linux vs. Windows, etc. It is safe to say that these results are true for the servers they monitor, but the percentages may not be true for all servers across the globe. For more statistics and the rest of the story you can see this article at globetechnology.com: Linux is favourite hacker target: Study.