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New Insights: Linux System Exploit Durability Expands To Three Months

Calendar Dec 22, 2004 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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patch management security trends malicious activity linux systems vulnerability awareness

New Honeynet Project KYE paper released "Know Your Enemy: Trends". This paper documents how the life expectancy of unpatched or vulnerable deployments of common Linux systems has increased from 3 days to 3 months. This is surprising based on the increase of malicious activity seen in the past 18 months.

 

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