CSIRT

17 May 2014 at 12:16am
Thanks to the generosity of my host, AusCERT, I’ve been able to spend this week in Queensland at AusCERT’s annual conference. Whilst not part of the Australian NREN AARNet, AusCERT fulfils a similar role to Janet CSIRT and provides incident response services to the Higher Education sector in Australia.
9 May 2014 at 11:03am
Just a reminder that the Janet Security Incident Classification Scheme is available here to help you with this.
15 April 2014 at 4:01pm
Category Count Compromise 16 Copyright 3 Denial of Service 18 General Query 4 LEA Query 2 Legal/Policy Query 0 Malware 519 Net/Security Query 5 Other 7 Phishing 19 Scanning 9 Social Engineering 1
17 April 2014 at 2:49pm
We have responded to the announcement of the OpenSSL vulnerability today, 8th April 2014. Technical advice (detailed below) has been issued to colleagues across the sector to assist them in responding to this vulnerability. In addition, replacement certificates, for those organisations affected by this vulnerability, will be issued at no cost by the Janet Certificate Service. If your organisation is affected by the OpenSSL vulnerability and is taking steps to address this, and requiring a replacement certificate, then please visit the following url for further information.
2 April 2014 at 11:35am
We continue to monitor the effect of the filtering of large ntp packets (> 128 bytes) at the Janet borders. Where people have had concerns we've been working with them to make sure that their work is impacted as little as possible by this measure. The filtering has had a large reduction on the impact to Janet infrastructure but the current filtering limits still allow enough traffic through the Janet border to cause disruption for customers with 100Mb/s, or busy 1Gb/s, connections.
13 March 2014 at 3:38pm
Category Count Compromise 111 Copyright 7 Denial of Service 61 General Query 7 LEA Query 2 Legal/Policy Query 1 Malware 380 Net/Security Query 15 Other 11 Phishing 27 Scanning 10 Social Engineering 0
24 February 2014 at 10:51am
The 'Hands on Security Testing' live online learning course covers the basics of Security Testing, from port scanning using the freely available nmap tool, through to vulnerability exploitation using the metasploit tool. This course takes place over six sessions.   
21 February 2014 at 2:10pm
The increasing frequency, number and size of ntp based DDoS attacks against Janet connected organisations has at times briefly degraded connectivity to sections of the network. Whilst we are able to react to these attacks as and when they occur, the impact upon our customers can be significant. This situation is far from unique to Janet - ISPs globally are struggling with this issue.
6 February 2014 at 9:55am
Category Count Compromise 9 Copyright 1 Denial of Service 149 General Query 9 LEA Query 4 Legal/Policy Query 1 Malware 422 Net/Security Query 19 Other 17 Phishing 30 Scanning 15 Social Engineering 0
21 January 2014 at 8:42am
Category Count Compromise 152 Copyright 2 Denial of Service 16 General Query 6 LEA Query 1 Legal/Policy Query 1 Malware 618 Net/Security Query 4 Other 11 Phishing 14 Scanning 14 Social Engineering 0
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