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摘要

Karl Hart doesn't need to read articles or watch the evening news to know that financially motivated hackers nowadays are finding easy pickings at colleges and universities across the country. The 35-year-old information security officer (ISO) at the University of Cincinnati need only review some of his own college's event logs to realize that academia's liberal networking environment often acts as an open invite to the criminal element cruising the internet. "Universities and higher-ed are the first to get hit," Hart says. "It's almost like a playground. It's like, 'Let's try it here first.'"