{"id":127,"date":"2006-01-10T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/10\/linux-vulnerability-report-draws-criticism\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T07:11:30","slug":"linux-vulnerability-report-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/10\/linux-vulnerability-report-draws-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Vulnerability Report Draws Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A U.S. government study that reports there were <\/strong><strong>three <\/strong>times more software vulnerabilities in the <strong>Linux\/ Unix<\/strong> platform than in the <strong>Windows <\/strong>platform during 2005 not only is drawing criticism from the open-source community but also has prompted questions from security authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Cyber Security Bulletin 2005<\/strong>, published last week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (<strong>US-CERT), <\/strong>indicates that, out of<strong> 5,198 <\/strong>reported flaws, <strong>812 <\/strong>were Windows vulnerabilities, 2,328 were Linux\/Unix flaws, and 2,058 were multiple system vulnerabilities. Open to Interpretation In response to the report, <strong>NewsForge<\/strong>.com pointed out that, while many in the trade press have concluded that Windows is three times safer than Linux, the government figures are somewhat misleading. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nf\/20060109\/bs_nf\/40747\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. government study that reports there were three times more software vulnerabilities in the Linux\/ Unix platform than in the Windows platform during 2005 not only is drawing criticism from the open-source community but also has prompted questions from security authorities. Cyber Security Bulletin 2005, published last week by the United States Computer Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}