Fun fact: The outdated software runs on outdated hardware, too.
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I was going to make a Linux joke being why my company's security has been stable... Until the XZ Utils exploit.
Yes, cybersecurity wouldn’t disappear, it just wouldn’t be the humongous, roiling, clusterf**k it usually is.
Name a high-profile breach on a *nix system not due to configuration (user) error. I’d add “or a hardware/firmware hack” but you get the idea.
Just this months patch tuesday notes:
Sure, security vulnerabilities exist in the linux world, but luckily not that many.
yes and no. if you look at the number of reported CVEs, debian takes the crown of all operating systems. still feeling more secure on linux than any closed source system
Yeah, that's because there's an entire cottage industry of people scraping old bug reports, and linter errors to create CVEs they can sell to customers worrying about security. It creates a huge number of false positives. E.g. see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/
I think any measure that is looking at a raw count is going to be meaningless. Particularly, comparing raw counts between open and closed software.