Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Techworld.com - Linux servers safer than ever

"... an unpatched Linux system lasts, on average, three months before it is compromised.... The average survival time for the systems [windows systems] the ISC tests has declined from about 55 minutes in the autumn of 2003 to just under 20 minutes..."

Just under 20 minutes. Nice to know. That means if you are running a Windows system on the internet, and it doesn't have the latest patches applied, it will get hit within 20 minutes. Actually that number is higher than I've read before. I thought I read something that you'd get hit (not necessairly comprimised, but hit) within seconds.

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