Incident Details

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Incident Details
Incident Status closed
Services Impacted Network Connectivity
Web Filtering
Start Time 2016-10-10 15:00 BST
End Time 2016-10-10 15:15 BST
Description We are currently experiencing internet access issues. This is due to another DDOS attack. Networks team are investigating.
Incident Updates
Time Detail
2016-10-10 15:25:50 BST Problem seems to have been resolved. Further investigations underway.
2016-10-12 08:53:58 BST There is no specific location from which this attack occured , although there were more than 34000 different source addresses involved. Further tightening of the denial of service protection system on the firewall has been done to protect the network, however there is a limit to what can be done.
2016-10-12 13:19:48 BST JANET have now placed additional filters on inbound traffic based on the attacks we have experienced this week.