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getting things straight...
hoojchoons:
Are you trying to compare the exploits written for IIS machines to those written for Linux machines? If so, you're sentenced to fail. I don't believe that anyone in here ever claimed that *nix and Linux boxes are "bulletproof". Of course there are vulnerabilities and security holes in every OS but try comparing the time it takes for the latter to be patched in Linux to the time it takes for M$ to patch Windoze holes!
cloudstrife:
quote:Originally posted by cyrax-:
If i had a dollar for every linux exploit on this page i would be pretty happy
http://www.insecure.org/sploits_linux.html
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For almost every exploit on this page, you must have some programming knowledge. Also, most of these exploit deal with versions of linux from around '98.
Master of Reality:
this is a pretty stupid thread... its just cyrax trying to fill a gaping hole of insecurity about linux within hinself.
voidmain:
All I can say is, none of my Linux servers have ever been hacked, and I have many of them exposed. *All* of the Windows machines have been hit with viruses and worms more than one time. Linux and BSD are the only machines I expose to the internet and one is up to 479 days of uptime. Let's see, how many Win servers do you have with that sort of record?
dwar:
quote: could someone tell me why on IRC there are chat rooms with hundreds to thousands of people trading hacked linux box accounts? i dont see people trading hacked windows boxes
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You are right, but most of those aren't from core exploits. People run extra programs that have vulnerabilities of their own. Now, compare hundreds to thousands to the thousands to hundered of thousands of hacked windows machines. Unlike UNIX on winblows you gain access to the whole system instead of just the user it was running on. Don't act like winblows doesn't ever get hacked. I've seen multiple irc channels with over 5000-10000 hacked winblows clients. So don't start getting all cocky about things you don't even know what you are talking about.
Winblows is a paradise for worms, virii, and trojans. Think about it, if you were a virus would you want to live in Hawaii, or in a working systemized enviorment such as a big city, where you can't really do what you want.
[ June 01, 2002: Message edited by: dwar ]
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