Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
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What happened
A batch of Ars Technica security stories covering multiple high-impact threats: widespread subdomain takeovers of university sites (hosting porn) due to poor housekeeping; a ransomware family adopting post‑quantum cryptography; a crypto-based maritime scam that may have lured a ship into the Strait of Hormuz; an emergency Microsoft update for an ASP.NET authentication flaw affecting macOS and Linux; Anthropic’s Mythos model finding 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150; new Rowhammer GPU attacks (Nvidia) that can escalate to full machine compromise; large-scale router compromises attributed to a俄
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- arstechnica_security
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- 2026-04-27T08:51:48Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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