MIT scores worst in cybersecurity
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2983159/security/mit-scores-worst-in-cybersecurity.html
"They do their own malware research," he said. "They run
honeypots. They're running TOR exit nodes." But that's only
part of the story, he added. "When we dug in, we found that
there's a lot of exposed passwords, old legacy systems, and a
bunch of administrative subdomains that seem to have been
forgotten about," he said. Other problems included instances of
the old Conficker worm, vulnerable ports, and old services still
up and running which shouldn't be running anymore. It's common
at colleges for students and faculty to move on and forget to
shut down old projects, Heid said.
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