Report: Linux hack attacks on the rise

[CyberViking2000]

Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the Linux operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, according to a new report from U.K. system integrator Mi2g.

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[Kent]

Considering the great majority of the population of web servers are based on *nix operating systems (somewhere around 73% according to CNN) there's no question why hackers would want to do such a thing.  Who in their right mind (as a system engineer mind you) would use a Windows system for production web releases?  The article points out a huge and exhaustive duh factor.

:pint:

[KennyR]

Hackers like a challenge (perhaps as a substitute for a sex life), so Windows servers would hardly appeal to them. They have more holes than a proverbial chunk of swiss cheese.

[Coder]

KennyR is right. It seems that hackers want a challange. And you have with Linux.

Coder

[SilvrDrgn]

Yes, hackers like a challenge.  I've got Apache running on my Amiga at home.  That would be a challenge.  No, I'm NOT inviting hack attempts.  Funny thing is that every hack attempt on my server so far, since I put it online a couple of weeks ago, has been a "script kiddie" trying to hack WinNT and IIS.