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All the current OS X and Linux malware only infect the users home folder unless you give over your sudo password. On Windows, how many privilege escalation vulnerabilities have there be? 10000s.
Linux and OS X are much more secure at the core than Windows, a lot inherited from UNIX.
Some OpenVZ hosts want a punch in the face imo, so many templates 'minimal' with apache and bind9 and samba installed out of the box.... are you high? make some god damn effort.
This is another perfect reason not to use Apache!
At least Apache has proved itself overtime
But seriously Apache isn't that bad 
But, shall I take my sites down?!
As I know that LOTS of hacking spiders had found their way to my logs since long time ago.
And how to patch that issue??
But this is not proven to be an Apache vulnerability right? The attackers gained root access, they just happened to target Apache to distribute their malware. I guess if nginx has a bigger market share they would have written an nginx module instead/also.
Nginx 
That said, I
No, there is a wordpress vulnerability as someone said and apache has more features, one of them is used to load the code.
From what i know this is not an escalation of privileges, the code exploits only apache to deliver the payload.