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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