NT still most hacked web server platform

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http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/101161

James Middleton
08 Jan 2001

The year 2000 saw Windows NT steaming ahead yet again as the most
hacked web server operating system, after a majority of defaced pages
were found to be sitting on compromised NT boxes. As NT is one of the
most popular options for web servers, it appears that it is attacked
most, however a number of companies running web sites on variations of
Linux also suffered the embarrassment of defacement.

Defaced web page aggregation service, Attrition.org, provided the
statistics. The site maintains snapshots of any pages that are
reported to be hacked and is usually the first port of call for any
hacker who has just defaced a web site. According to the research
carried out between August 1999 and the present day, Windows NT was
running on 56 per cent of compromised web servers. Although none of
the other operating systems even came close to these figures, perhaps
surprisingly, unknown distributions of Linux took second place with 12
per cent of the compromises.

Red Hat Linux, also took 7 per cent of the defacements, doing slightly
better than Solaris, which accounted for 8 per cent of compromises.
Windows 2000, was down nearer the bottom of the list, only suffering 2
per cent of the successful hacking attempts. More obscure
distributions of Linux such as Debian and Slackware, along with MacOS
and BSD were lower down the list, with Power BSD and MacOSX powered
web servers only being hacked on one occasion.

The full table can be seen here.

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/os.html

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