Aussies leaving lots of insecure ports open to attackers

Aussies leaving lots of insecure ports open to attackers

Australian sysadmins continue to live dangerously and expose insecure network services to a hostile internet, putting themselves at risk of compromise and information theft. Security vendor Rapid7 scanned much of the IPv4 internet [pdf] to check the extent of networked computer systems exposing services to the world. The scans ranked Australia ninth globally for offering more exposed services relative to its total size on the internet than most other developed nations.

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