Website seems to be up again now.
Whisky business: Uni of Edinburgh servers Irn-Scru'd by cyber-attack
The University of Edinburgh has gone offline from what appears to be a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the campus network. As a result, the Scottish college's websites and wireless network gateways are down due to a flood of junk traffic during its first week of class. So far no student or faculty data is …
COMMENTS
-
-
This post has been deleted by its author
-
-
-
Thursday 13th September 2018 10:30 GMT GruntyMcPugh
Re: Students vs the man
@AC: "some poor underpaid IT interns vs some student testing his/her limits."
Got this quite a bit when I worked for a University (Vax/VMS days),... a lot of wild claims and brags were made which were total BS,... but the odd enterprising little sod would find a pukka exploit every now and again. Like one who missed being able to send Internet email (this was a privilege only granted to select students back in the day, and we had an ACL for that) but he'd returned from a work placement, and had a copy of the CBS mail program from his employer, so ran his own version to send mail. I caught him, we actually became quite good friends, and he ended up managing the Students Union IT :-)
-
-
Thursday 13th September 2018 05:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Secret trick for double speed internet in your dorm:
Plug both ends of an ethernet cable into the wall, the third will have double speed!1!!
(Yes, I know that's detected and fixed automatically at a fairly low ISO-OSI layer if your network equipment is less than 20 years old, and you dared make a config change to a working system to enable it once you were absolutely sure you removed the last equipment that didn't support it.)
-
-
Thursday 13th September 2018 13:22 GMT agurney
Re: Scottish college?
"Edinburgh University. The clue is in the name. Heathens."
Wrong. From the Uni's website:
"The University of Edinburgh's academic structure is based on three Colleges containing a total of 20 Schools."
- College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
- College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
- College of Science & Engineering
[ and, of course, with three colleges it means the apostrophe is in the wrong place "..the Scottish college's websites and wireless network gateways are down ]