[ubuntu-in] Attacks on Linux Servers

[mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com>wrote:

> Those that are in the IT field managing Servers and Networking, Admin,
> Security : Would you agree on this:
> "Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware, as it dominates the
> server industry, and that's where the important data and real meat of
> attacks are attempted."
>

I am just a student,, but would like to add my view on this...

I don't think "Linux is a larger target for viruses and malware", Of course
servers hold good amount of data to attracts black hats. No matter what the
operating system is, Windows based or Linux based, servers are made secure,
what are dedicated sys admins, security guys work for??? Mostly servers are
secures towards these viruses and malwares, and most of the cases users
intervention is very much required, which hardly happens on servers...
If one wants to attack on those, they can try XSS, Sql Injection DDOS,
exploit some applications like apache, crack passwords, and thousands of
other ways...

I would like to counter on another point "Linux is more secure than
windows", I feel not very true.
One can build a very secure system with Windows based os, and one can be
compromised easily who is using Linux based system. So my point is, Users
those who configure the system make or break their system. I feel it is true
that, out of box Linux is more secure.

This is just what I feel.


>
> This is said as if it is currently happening.
> So your views.
>
> Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9826809#post9826809
> Regards
>
> Narendra Diwate
>
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-in mailing list
> ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/attachments/20101019/3a5da810/attachment.htm