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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.

  • conciselyverbose
    11•1 year ago

    If enough university hardware was compromised, it could be used combined with their massive bandwidth to springboard into all kinds of attacks.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
      6•1 year ago

      I remember my university disabled SSH access indefinitely for all students a year before my graduation.

      It was pretty sweet while it lasted, but apparently bad actors kept attacking it.

      • lckdscl [they/them]English
        4•1 year ago

        Weird, did they not enforce the use of a VPN if you want to SSH outside the network or was this done by someone on campus?

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
          4•1 year ago

          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