I love Linux for a majority of workloads, but it is consistently the first OS hacked at every annual Black Hat conference. It may be ubiquitous, but most admins don’t understand how to configure it securely, esp. Apache.
If you’re using it in your home environment, make sure you know what you’re doing. So many folks on FR claim how superior their home user experience is over Windows, but are you really sure you’ve configured your Linux distro for security?
Linux is great in concept but the egghead’s putting together the distributions make some huge rookie mistakes and this is one of them.
No one should have to go hunt down and close a bunch of doors that got left open during an install.
“So many folks on FR claim how superior their home user experience is over Windows, but are you really sure you’ve configured your Linux distro for security?”
Yes, just install it and use it, four years later this same install has had no breaches with no need for three different antiviruses or any updates.
One thing I haven’t been able to locate, and I don’t know if it even exists, is a good Internet Security Program for it. I got Linux Mint, and I know Linux is more secure than Windows by default, but is there a good Internet Security program that can be installed to make it even more so?