RE: on the university problem

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

It's fairly easy to test this, just run Google searches on various porn
terms or sleazy marketing terms (free casino, free ringtones, etc.) with
site:.edu or site:.gov as operators.  It's clear it's far, far more of a
problem in the .edu space than at least .gov, largely because of the
reasons everyone knows (unpatched open source, etc.). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean () donelan com] 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Jordan Wiens
Cc: Alex Eckelberry; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] on the university problem

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jordan Wiens wrote:
> 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.

Universities are probably not any more OR less of a problem than any
other organization with connections to the Internet.  Fortune 1000,
government, non-profits, for-profits, domestic, international, etc.  You
name it and they probably have had, have or will have a problem.

Even "Internet security consultants" have had bugs, lost laptops,
compromised computers, fraud and theft happen.


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