On November 3, the British Safety Intelligence Department was in a report released on Monday. Mac OS X, BSD UNIX is "The fastest and safest 24/7 online computing environment in the world. LINUX security record Worst, Windows.
Mats, Executive President of the Security Intelligence Department, in 2004, many smart individuals, enterprises, and government departments are turning to Apple's platform and BSD UNIX. He said that since the professionals do not have time to cope with countless Linux versions or waiting for Longhorn's advent, Mac OS X and BSD UNIX are accelerating.
The security intelligence department analyzed 235,07,707 attack events for global intranet computer systems during the October 2004. Among the 23,5907 attack events, 65.64% of attack events - that is, 154,846 attack events are for Linux systems. Attack events for Windows systems account for 25.19%, while Mac OS X or BSD UNIX proportion Only 4.82%.
The research of the security intelligence department shows that more than 32.7% of attack events are for the so-called "miniature entities" - home users or small-scale enterprises; 58.8% of attack events for so-called "small entities"; 6.1% attack event For medium-sized enterprises; only 2.5% of aggressive events include "large entities" including large companies, government departments and non-governmental organizations.
Compared with Windows, or even Linux, installing Mac OS X and BSD UNIX computer systems should be much less, this is some security experts and industry scholars so-called "ignorance". Since there are fewer users in Mac systems, few hackers will try to attack it.
The security intelligence department said that malware attacks such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses have no significant economic losses, and the Windows environment is often subject to significant economic losses due to malware.
