A consortium of cybersecurity researchers from MIT, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon was announced in Washington D.C. with the stated goal is to collaborate on cybersecurity research including 10 projects. Attackers are compromising email accounts from popular universities, including Purdue and Oxford, to launch attacks that get around DMARC and SPF. Researchers are developing an Internet-scale model on which to perform experiments not possible on the live Internet. Read the full article in TechTarget.com/Cybersecurity-security-research.com.
Source: https://threatpost.com/large-scale-security-experiments-coming-120209/73191/