Re: Brown University - Cybersecurity Threat Announcement

[Jeremy Livingston <jlivings () STEVENS EDU>]

I agree with Sol,  and as I've often seen additionally their Legal team will advise them against making any public 
statements about the nature of the incident.



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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Sol Bermann
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 1:33 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Brown University - Cybersecurity Threat Announcement

Brown is in the middle of an incident and investigation. If they care, or have time, to share, they will.

We should give them the space to focus on themselves first.

The FBI and CISA alerts over the last weeks/months regarding targetting of high ed is enough for all of us to go on for 
now
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:21 PM Nadim El-Khoury <0000024d485fe2c4-dmarc-request () listserv educause 
edu<mailto:0000024d485fe2c4-dmarc-request () listserv educause edu>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Do we know what threat Brown University detected that prompted them to shut down connections to their central data 
center?  It would be helpful to understand the nature of the threat and be on the lookout.

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Best,

Nadim

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