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Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses (umich.edu)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Recant to c/technology

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On the eve of classes starting for the fall term, the University of Michigan has decided to cut the internet connection of all campuses.

The University of Michigan has more than 30,000 students and has a very large hospital with over 550 beds on its main hospital campus.

It will be interesting to see what prompted the securing of the network. Was this just focused at the hospital, students, or both? Only time will tell.

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No VPN was provided for us to use - it was pretty much just connect to port 22 with the university's website as the hostname, from any network.

It was a pretty niche thing as only a few students (including myself) used it remotely, and only a tiny part of the course that included a DBA exercise actually required us to use SSH access an Oracle DB server.

I believe the attacks were carried out external to the campus, but they didn't clarify that to us

[–] LunarticBot 6 points 1 year ago

That's just straight up bad IT to do something like that.