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17 June 2014 at 4:00pm
Andrew's recent post on the legal issues of cleaning up after botnet infections has prompted me to write something about how the way that Janet CSIRT operates helps with these issues in our community.
16 June 2014 at 11:07am
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education sectors. The figures are frequently more closely correlated to the activity of CSIRT and our detection of events rather than their actual rates of incidence. For example: a successful investigation by researchers into a botnet will cause that month's malware figures to rise even though the malware may have been active in previous months.
13 June 2014 at 4:07pm
The period of protection offered by the joint action between the NCA and FBI ends at 00:00BST on Tuesday 17 June. We recommend that you take full advantage of the remaining time and clean up any infected hosts.
2 June 2014 at 4:39pm
As you may now be aware, the FBI and NCA are coordinating 'global day of action' against the Zeus-P2p and Cryptolocker families of malware. Law enforcement and industry partners will be collaborating to interrupt infrastructure vital to the malware's operation and to raise public awareness of these threats.
22 May 2014 at 11:17am
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education sectors. The figures are frequently more closely correlated to the activity of CSIRT and our detection of events rather than their actual rates of incidence. For example: a successful investigation by researchers into a botnet will cause that month's malware figures to rise even though the malware may have been active in previous months.
17 May 2014 at 12:16am
Thanks to the generosity of my host, AusCERT, I’ve been able to spend this week in Queensland at AusCERT’s annual conference. Whilst not part of the Australian NREN AARNet, AusCERT fulfils a similar role to Janet CSIRT and provides incident response services to the Higher Education sector in Australia.
15 April 2014 at 4:01pm
Category Count Compromise 16 Copyright 3 Denial of Service 18 General Query 4 LEA Query 2 Legal/Policy Query 0 Malware 519 Net/Security Query 5 Other 7 Phishing 19 Scanning 9 Social Engineering 1
2 April 2014 at 11:35am
We continue to monitor the effect of the filtering of large ntp packets (> 128 bytes) at the Janet borders. Where people have had concerns we've been working with them to make sure that their work is impacted as little as possible by this measure. The filtering has had a large reduction on the impact to Janet infrastructure but the current filtering limits still allow enough traffic through the Janet border to cause disruption for customers with 100Mb/s, or busy 1Gb/s, connections.
13 March 2014 at 3:38pm
Category Count Compromise 111 Copyright 7 Denial of Service 61 General Query 7 LEA Query 2 Legal/Policy Query 1 Malware 380 Net/Security Query 15 Other 11 Phishing 27 Scanning 10 Social Engineering 0
12 March 2014 at 11:35am
UCISA plan to update the Information Security Toolkit and have published a call for expressions of interest from institutions and authors to contribute to this work. More information is available at: http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/news/2014-03-11-IST_EoI
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