The Inspectorate of Education is going to conduct an investigation into the ransomwareaanval at the University of Maastricht (UM). It is determined whether the university had enough been done to a similar attack in the future to prevent it.
That is reported by the secretary, Ingrid van Engelshoven, of Education, in a letter to the house of commons. Also, the research will focus on the lessons learned, so that other universities with a view of possible vulnerabilities and appropriate measures will be taken.
The university was established on the 24th of december last year, is contaminated with gijzelsoftware, files, and computers that have been closed. Students, researchers, and staff for days, no mail, and have had limited access to the internet. The university is paid at the end of december, 197.000 euros in ransom in order to regain access to the systems to get it, and UM, earlier this month.
the investigation involves the Inspection of, inter alia, from that of a previous report published by Fox-IT. “The report from Fox-IT turns out that the root cause of the incident was caused by a combination of some of the missing key security updates, the restricted segment in the network, it does not follow, from the different signals and the unfortunate human action,” writes Van Engelshoven.
The study by the school board for the summer to be completed.
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