Brown University Cyberattack
Brown University is a private research university in the US, which has reportedly faced a cyberattack on Tuesday this week. Immediately, most of the service connections were cut off with the data center, with the University’s IT staff saying the attack was focused on Windows-based systems. Thus, they directed the faculty and other staff members to use smartphones or tablets running on other OS, then Windows. Also, they asked the employees to contact the University’s IT consultant or the Departmental Computer Coordinator to check if their system has obtained ‘known clean status. While this hints about a malware attack, Bill Thirsk, CIO of Brown University, said as below; While the exact nature of the attack couldn’t be determined, the university’s IT staff has brought back some services like www.brown.edu websites, the library.Brown.edu domain, and listserv services online. They’re now working on bringing back the rest of the systems online and connecting all of them as before.
