Microsoft says it is still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email of senior company executives in November and have since been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data.
    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Linux anyone ?

      I don’t want to sound dismissive, this is a genuine question and not an attack on Linux.

      Other than security by obscurity, how is it possible that an operating system whose entire source code is available to hackers to peruse at will could be more secure than a closed source one?

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Security by obscurity doesn’t work. Microsoft software has always been closed source and it has never prevented hackers making exploits.

        Open source software allows hundreds of thousands of people to comb over the code and find/fix vulnerabilities much easier.

        It’s also true that because of the way Linux is developed, security flaws in Linux are patched much faster than in other projects, with Linux patching issues in an average of 25 days compared to Microsoft’s 83 days. And the gap is widening, recently Linux has got that down to 15 days.

        There’s a reason companies go with Linux for servers that handle sensitive information or are business-critical. And there’s a reason why the best encryption algorithms are all open source.