If you thought WannaCry inspired a global wakeup call and a massive crackdown on exposed and dangerous ports, you would be wrong.
In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network. The ambitious project scanned more than three billion IP-addressable, public internet servers and checked for exposed services on 30 different ports on each device.