UvA also experiences network disruption due to DDoS attack in south
Thursday morning, universities and hogescholen in the south of the country are plagued by a DDoS attack. The UvA is also affected: the internet is very slow.
Brabant and Limburg are suffering from a DDoS attack. As a result, hogescholen and universities are experiencing slow Internet or no Internet at all, reports SURF, the ict cooperative of Dutch educational and research institutions.
The UvA is also suffering from this attack. “A DDoS attack is nothing more than deliberately sending a lot of traffic towards a network,” says a SURF spokesperson. “As a result, other users may also be inconvenienced.”
It is a different DDoS attack than yesterday, according to SURF, when universities and hogescholen also struggled with slow or no internet, but “again with a huge amount of traffic. Also, the traffic is at a point in SURF’s network where filtering is not easily possible. “We are investigating various measures to repel the attack. This will take some time,” SURF said on their website.
TU Eindhoven was hit by a cyber attack last weekend. As a result, the university closed its doors all week and exams had to be rescheduled. TU Eindhoven expects to resume all lectures on Monday.
