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Denson: DMACC ransomware response ‘like hand-to-hand combat’ Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:21 PM When the network alarms tipped off staff in the late hours between June 1 and 2 at Des Moines Area Community College, the information technology department’s quick actions might have prevented an overseas ransomware attack from diving any deeper into the network servers. “When we talked to the FBI, they said it was pretty much like hand-to-hand combat,” DMACC President Rob Denson told the Business Record. “We were in at the same time dealing with issues a...

Des Moines Area Community College is still recovering from a "security incident" discovered last week. “We have experienced a security incident which required us to shut down parts of our network until the situation is assessed and we remediate the issue,” the college said in a statement posted on Facebook June 4. Fully online classes were first canceled June 3 and have not

In-person classes are back in session for students, but the network remains down one week after Des Moines Area Community College identified a cybersecurity thr

The FBI is now working with Iowa's Des Moines Area Community College on a data security breach that has led to days of the school being shut down. The

Online courses will remain canceled due to limitations that remain after DMACC shut down parts of its network in response to the incident last week.