Nearly 2,000 MCP Servers Possess No Security Whatsoever

Image credit: Freepik via Freepik. Article by Nate Nelson. Dark Reading – July 18, 2025.

Approximately all of the nearly 2,000 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers exposed to the Web today are totally bereft of authentication or access controls. Every technology experiences awkward growing pains when it’s first released, particularly when it comes to cybersecurity. That’s especially true of artificial intelligence (AI), and most emblematic of AI’s rush to adoption before security is the MCP server. […]

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