Nothing is un-hackable, but the degrees of difficulty matter. Apache is a far more popular web server than IIS yet we know which one is the easier target for hackers. Popularity isn't *the* determining factor, it's how well-coded the system is. While on this issue, check-out Jarlsberg http://jarlsberg.appspot.com/, an excellent hands-on resource on security on the web for anyone building/hosting/implementing anything on the web: Want to beat the hackers at their own game? - Learn how hackers find security vulnerabilities! - Learn how hackers exploit web applications! - Learn how to stop them! This codelab shows how web application vulnerabilities can be exploited and how to defend against these attacks. The best way to learn things is by doing, so you'll get a chance to do some real penetration testing, actually exploiting a real application. Specifically, you'll learn the following: - How an application can be attacked using common web security vulnerabilities, like cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (XSRF). - How to find, fix, and avoid these common vulnerabilities and other bugs that have a security impact, such as denial-of-service, information disclosure, or remote code execution. You will be surprised at how something as "simple" as different unicode encodings (utf-8, utf-7 etc) can be used to hack into web applications. -saidi- On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Joe Maina <maina307@gmail.com> wrote:
I fail to understand why guys claim linux is unhackable. The thing is if it was as popular as windows am certain its vunerabilities would be exploited same as windows.
On 17/06/2010, Roy Michoma <roymichoma@gmail.com> wrote:
Has the linux malware assault <http://tinyurl.com/24htdnc> just began or is this a one time thing?
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