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

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

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[DarthSlack]

Does anyone else feel like this type of attack comes from lack of funding/staffing in IT departments?
I feel that this was an inevitability with all the anti-DEI and staff reduction initiatives at soooooo many businesses; you cannot effectively maintain an IT infrastructure if you keep cutting staff and moving services to the cloud.

Eventually, something is going to fall through the cracks...

I'm sure that contributes to the problem, but at universities, the number of domains and servers can get pretty wild. And even in a fully staffed department, it's rare that anyone is tasked with either tracking or cleaning up dead registry entries. To a large extent, universities are an IT nightmare because you have a whole host of people who know enough to set stuff up on their own, but don't know enough to tell someone when they pull the plug.