Vulnerability Stats; was: Re: Interesting chart re server security

[Chris Brown]

Below is another interesting set of statistics. The introduction has some 
good points and some caveats.  One of the things said is: 

"The statistics should not be taken to imply that some particular operating 
system or application is more or less secure than another one..."

http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/vdb/stats.html

As was implied in earlier postings, any OS can be made more secure.  
I would suggest that defacements are often more a function of the 
management of the server than it is the default and inherent characteristics 
of an OS.

Regards,
Chris



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>>> dje at clipper.net 01/09 2:52 PM >>>
Check out http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/os.html#ALL.

Someone posted this chart on the EUGLUG (Eugene Unix/GNU/Linux Users
Group) mailing list. Thought you'd all like to see it.

Dennis