Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Security study pans Windows - ZDNet UK News

Security study pans Windows - ZDNet UK News

The Aitel paper marks the first time that a security professional with hands-on experience of hacking both Linux and Windows systems has weighed in on the issue.

Based on their tentative data, Immunity's researchers found that their average time to find a flaw in the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Core 2 distribution of Linux was about six days -- twice as long on average as it took to find previously unknown Windows vulnerabilities.

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