Finals Looming, Rutgers Scrambles to Respond to Ongoing Online Attacks

With final exams looming, Rutgers University said Thursday evening it was working with federal and state law enforcement to investigate ongoing attacks on its online systems. The distributed denial-of-service attacks began around 10 a.m. Monday, the second such attack on Rutgers’ systems in less than a month. The attack in late March also lasted several days and shut down access to the university's wireless Internet, e-mail, websites, and online course-management system. “[Rutgers] continues to experience degraded online services,” a university message said. “The DDoS attacks are ongoing and persistent.”


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