So here is a bit 'odd news:
- http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-11-29-honeypot_x.htm
That' s a study on time average resistance of a PC connected to the Internet to be compromised and attacked: The interesting thing 'that have been tried both Windows and Mac platforms that Linux ...
The sad thing is' that of all the distributions have taken the Linspire .. mah
The cool thing is, however, 'were the attacks on WINXP SP1 ... and these are the results: While
Attempted break-ins never Ceased, successful compromises Were limited to nine instances on the minimally protected Windows XP computer and a single break-in of the Windows Small Business Server. Were there no successful compromises of the Macintosh, the Linspire or the two Windows XPs using firewalls.UPDATE: For more information on this news in Italian here is a nice summary report on ZeusNews:
-> http://www.zeusnews.it/index.php3?ar=stampa&cod=3573
Four minutes online enough to infect a PC. The design and marketing company in California Avantgarde and popular newspaper USA Today instructed the famous Kevin Mitnick and Ryan Russell computer to connect to the Internet for two weeks, six of the most common computing platforms, in standard configuration set by the manufacturer to see which would better resist the wave of attacks that silently affects every computer connected to the Net ...- http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
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And speaking of security, a large fine article detailed how and why 'a can' be safe: planning and design in the first place ... and see if there 's a nice comparison between Win and Linux)
and then there' s also this:
Finally, we Also includes a brief overview of relevant conceptual Differences Between Windows and Linux, to offer an insight into why Windows Tends To Be More Vulnerable to attacks at Both server and desktop, and why Linux is inherently more secure.
- http://memoria.indivia.net/index.php
Draft Community historiography: taken from the site ...
This project stems from the desire to tell their stories, intended as a tool to understand and know the past through the words and stories of the past that those who lived it firsthand.good initiative, but to break the curtain of disinformation and into computer hacking, and especially here in Italy ...
twenty years in this part of cyberspace and Italian 'crossed by millions of bits: electronic signals that convey information and data. Besides these electronic signals developed a myriad of experiences that have made their digital raison d'etre, making use and abuse.
This reinterpretation of semantic technology has always walked on two deeply connected roads: one is the production of self and other infrastructure to create a culture of information and "other."
The term "counter" would indicate precisely this body of knowledge, values, experiences and practices of software that comes from conscious and critical use of computers and what 'their surroundings, outside of special logic of the market, against all attempts to control and censorship of information, according to an extensive exchange of knowledge and uncontrollable. This wiki
tells the story of these reality 'through the voice of the same people that have driven over the years, and' draft history community where everyone can 'add an entry to the overview and tell their story : no more 'no less. In my opinion a great
- http://ubuntu.btlug.it/wiki.pl
a wiki on all Italian Ubuntu, one of the best distro I've ever used and I'm still using ...
among other things, they will write a short 'a little review ...
very nice and clean in my opinion:) And
