Cyber-attacks are becoming easier to conduct while conversely security is getting increasingly difficult, according to Kevin Curran, senior IEEE member and professor of cybersecurity, Ulster University, during a virtual media roundtable.
“Any company you can think of has had a data breach,” he commented. “Whenever a data breach happens it weakens our credentials because our passwords are often reused on different websites.”
He observed that the art of hacking doesn’t necessarily require a significant amount of technical expertise anymore, and bad actors can receive substantial help from numerous and readily accessible tools online. “You don’t have to spend seven years in college to learn how to hack, you just have to know about these sites and what terms to use,” noted Curran.
Laurentian U. fends off cyber attack
The university experienced a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, which it was able to stop within minutes
Dec 12, 2020 5:00 PM By: Heidi Ulrichsen
Laurentian University said it was able to fend off a cyber attack Thursday.
“We can confirm that Laurentian experienced a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, which we were able to stop within minutes,” said an email to Sudbury.com from Laurentian spokesperson Shaun Malley.
“None of our systems have been compromised.”
According to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack is a form of a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack.