[ale] OT: Gartner: drop IIS

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Wed Oct 3 16:43:51 EDT 2001


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Eichler, Paula J. wrote:

> Question:  Microsoft defenders in these types of articles like to say the
> the problem is that hackers attack IIS because it is so popular.  Maybe I
> misread something, but isn't Apache installed on more web servers than any
> other?  That would pretty much negate that argument, n'est pas?  Unless they
> are counting the "web servers" that are installed inadvertantly with other
> applications ...pj

It is more popular...just ask the script kiddies who have declared it
their target of choice. It gets rave reviews in many underground IRC
channels. Much like Visual Basic, it has more developers than anything
else. It's a shame that they're all developing exploit code...

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net






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