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by FrankDixon 2687 days ago
In germany the federal bureau of security in IT actually does that. They send the admins an email: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/IT-Crisis-Management/CERT-...
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Actually I once got a mail by them, forwarded via several intermediate admins in a university network. It was an information about a public reachable DNS server on my server. Nowadays, this can be abused for DNS replay attacks or so. What a pity. Things where so easy 20 years ago.