Rutgers Suffers Foreign DDoS Attack
On Monday morning, Rutgers University was still trying to recover from a distributed denial of service (DDoS ) attack that had been launched against it over the weekend, according to media reports. The attack, which began on Friday afternoon, interrupted Internet service for Rutgers students, faculty and staff, although no confidential information appears to have been leaked. The university's Office of Information Technology (OIT) had managed to restore Internet service on campus as of Monday, although some services remained unavailable for users trying to access the systems from off-campus. On Sunday, Don Smith, Rutgers' vice president of Information Technology, alerted students to the attack via e-mail. Attack Originated from Ukraine, China "The Rutgers University network has been under an extended distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack since Friday, Mar. 27," the university wrote in a security briefing on its computing services Web site on Sunda...