31 Oct 06 Communities Updates October 2006

On Wednesday, October 18, ITTS staff discovered an intruder on the Online Communities server. The server was brought down and taken off the network immediately. Out of an abundance of caution, we moved all the Online Communities applications to a new server which we built from scratch. Then, on October 23, the new OC server was found to have been compromised as well. All three servers (the database server as well) were taken off the network, and security experts were brought in. They conducted a thorough sweep of our systems and recommended new remote access procedures, which we have implemented. The OC servers were rebuilt, while being monitored for malicious software, and brought back up on Thursday, October 26th.