themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

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Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aberkeley.edu+"xxx"

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TLDR they’re not doing basic cleanup and auditing of their DNS records.

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