RE: [inbox] Re: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

I must disagree.  When Netware has had one major security patch this year
vs. 39 for Microsoft, the quality of the platform becomes fundamental.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity zar Richard Clarke


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Barbosa
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Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] CyberInsecurity: The cost of
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:59:04PM -0600, Bruce Ediger wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Rick Kingslan wrote:
> Oh, wait.  Apache has about 2 times the market share of IIS, and I'm
> still getting Code Red and Nimda hits TWO YEARS after they were released.
>
> By contrast, I only got about 2 days worth of hits from Slapper.

Ok, I'm all for opensource and stuff. But this kind of thing, like
still getting hitted by code red (same here), speaks more about the
quality of the administrators then of the platform itself.

--
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () suespammers org>
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)


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