Re: on the university problem

[Jordan Wiens <numatrix () ufl edu>]

Hey, I represe--err, resent that!  ;-)

Seriously though, part of the reason edus stand out with spam blog  
comments is because their search engine rankings are higher.  I don't  
believe that EDUs are necessarily less secure than equivalent sized  
businesses, it's just that they're more attractive targets for  
spammers doing this particular attack.

We've had our share of sites defaced in this manner over the years  
but so has one in about every five random blogs I stumble across when  
searching on the internet for various topics.  The true story here is  
"spammers hijack anything and everything they can to drive traffic to  
their sites."  Of course, that's not as interesting as the commonly  
held belief (true or not) that Universities are easy pickings.

Now if anyone wants to gather some /real numbers/ showing  
Universities are or aren't more of a problem, maybe we can stop  
making up guesses one way or the other.

--
Jordan Wiens, CISSP
UF Network Security Engineer
(352)392-2061


On Aug 10, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Alex Eckelberry wrote:

>     http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/08/06/ 
> story17.html?b=1186372800%5E1501325
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