Study shows Mac OS X Server among most secure in world:
Linux bore the brunt of 80 percent of the overall attacks, followed by Microsoft Windows at 12 percent and BSD and Mac OS X at 3 percent, together.
The total number of successful attacks, according to mi2g, was 17,074, of which Linux accounted for 13,654, Windows 2,005, and BSD and Mac OS X 555. Looking strictly at successful attacks against government servers, Linux comprised 57 percent of those, followed by Windows at 35 percent and BSD and Mac OS X at 0 percent, which the company notes is a first for that category.
Interesting perspective: more linux adoption by unskilled admins accounts for some of it. What it doesn’t look at is where the *BSDs and OS X have made inroads: the report seems to view the playing field as linux or windows.