Red Hat holes less severe than Windows - study
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While I am rarely a fan of studies in general, I do like where this one involving Red Hat and Windows is going though.
Red Hat is making hay from a report on system security vulnerabilities that apparently gives Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a clean bill of health.
A SANS Institute report has identified 20 top internet vulnerabilities of which only two affected RHEL, Red Hat said. According to Red Hat, patches have already been issued via the Red Hat network.
Red Hat claimed the report proves RHEL subscribers were less susceptible to network security holes than users of other platforms. The statement, though, is apparently a repost to studies backed by Microsoft, designed to “prove” Windows is more secure than Linux and offers better performance, that involved RHEL.[Read the rest]