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MIT network attacks post-mortem

19 points by lwf 14y ago

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codewiz 14y ago
The article does not mention that the Anonymous had defaced MIT's main website immediately before the Jan 13 MITnet outage: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html
denzil_correa 14y ago
The most interesting bit for me in this article MIT’s open network is essential to collaboration in teaching and learning at the Institute, Fitzgerald says. “IS&T is working to identify and address other vulnerabilities that present a risk to the campus network and key services — although the nature of these complex systems makes it difficult to eliminate risk completely,” she says. “Community members should be assured that particular attention is being paid to minimizing risks and outages in the future.” In my books, this is a trade off - if you want to keep your networks open, you will invite some trouble.
Archio 14y ago
Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club. Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university. There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".
- denzil_correa 14y ago
  > Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? In the recent times, MIT has come under the scanner after Swartz death. Therefore, people are interested in follow ups. > Why is this being posted here? I think this is relevant and hence being posted. It is interesting and people are voting up. I'm not an MIT alumnus and I don't see a reason for "MIT fan club" collusion as you may be referring to.
- rhizome 14y ago
  I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? No, but if you're looking for something to post, how about how RPI is basically a CIA farm school and what it's like to experience that as a student? HN'ers might be interested to read something like that.
  - Archio 14y ago
    What? I don't follow.
    - rhizome 14y ago
      If you're in a STEM major, just wait until your senior year or so.
csears 14y ago
If their domain was hijacked and repointed to rouge nameservers, I would have expected the attackers to redirect mail (MX records) in addition to web traffic. But this article didn't mention anything about email being potentially intercepted by hackers. Did I miss something?

19 points by lwf 14y ago

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The article does not mention that the Anonymous had defaced MIT's main website immediately before the Jan 13 MITnet outage: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html

denzil_correa 14y ago

The most interesting bit for me in this article MIT’s open network is essential to collaboration in teaching and learning at the Institute, Fitzgerald says. “IS&T is working to identify and address other vulnerabilities that present a risk to the campus network and key services — although the nature of these complex systems makes it difficult to eliminate risk completely,” she says. “Community members should be assured that particular attention is being paid to minimizing risks and outages in the future.” In my books, this is a trade off - if you want to keep your networks open, you will invite some trouble.

Archio 14y ago

Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club. Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university. There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".

denzil_correa 14y ago
> Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? In the recent times, MIT has come under the scanner after Swartz death. Therefore, people are interested in follow ups. > Why is this being posted here? I think this is relevant and hence being posted. It is interesting and people are voting up. I'm not an MIT alumnus and I don't see a reason for "MIT fan club" collusion as you may be referring to.
rhizome 14y ago
I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? No, but if you're looking for something to post, how about how RPI is basically a CIA farm school and what it's like to experience that as a student? HN'ers might be interested to read something like that.
- Archio 14y ago
  What? I don't follow.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    If you're in a STEM major, just wait until your senior year or so.

csears 14y ago

If their domain was hijacked and repointed to rouge nameservers, I would have expected the attackers to redirect mail (MX records) in addition to web traffic. But this article didn't mention anything about email being potentially intercepted by hackers. Did I miss something?