Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk

[Trent Shipley]

What percent of "servers" are running a Windows OS?

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of David
> P. Schwartz
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:25 PM
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> Subject: Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk
> 
> 
> Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010529/tc/insurer_considers_micr
> osoft_nt_high-risk_1.html
> 
> a brief quote:
> 
> > Windows-based servers are frequently victimized by hackers. 
> From August 1999 to November 2000, 56
> > percent of all the successful, documented hack attacks occurred 
> on systems using Microsoft server
> > software, according to statistics posted at Attrition.org, a 
> Web site that records hackers' exploits.
> >
> > Given Windows NT's record, Gene Spafford, the director of 
> Purdue University's Center for Education and
> > Research in Information Assurance and Security, believes higher 
> insurance premiums may be justified.
> > "NT is more difficult to install correctly and keep up to date 
> than Linux (news - web sites)," Spafford said.
> >
> 
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