Cyber attackers prefer Linux: report
Mi2g, an e-security company, has been collecting data on computer attacks since 1995 and during that time its has confirmed about 280,000 attacks from 7,900 groups, which have varying levels of sophistication. Though the latest report said that Microsoft software does not seem to be the favoured target of blackhats, it's worth noting that when mi2g looked only at attacks on government computers in August, it found that Windows boxes were the target 51.4 percent of the time, compared to 14.3 percent for Linux.
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