Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

2026-04-27T20:51:49Zfb23830c70bf6b1375cd1b20020dbf8fb7e12d2b9288bd38f32fa0ab2e727202
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What happened

A roundup of Ars Technica security reporting (Mar–Apr 2026) covering multiple high-impact incidents and research: widespread subdomain hijacks of university sites serving porn, a ransomware family adopting post‑quantum cryptography, a crypto-based maritime scam that lured a ship into attack, Microsoft emergency updates for an ASP.NET authentication failure affecting macOS/Linux, and Anthropic’s Mythos model discovering 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Other notable items include new Rowhammer GPU attacks against Nvidia (GDDRHammer/GeForge/GPUBreach), thousands of consumer routers compromi‌‍

Why it matters

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2026-04-27T20:51:49Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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