UPDATE: Cyber attack blamed for computer outage at U of W

By Mark Brown
June 22, 2022 4:43pm

The College of Windsor has confirmed that a popular personal computer outage on campus was triggered by a cybersecurity problem.

Pupils, faculty, and employees at the university have been working with a systems outage for two days. Campus apps these types of as email, Blackboard, and UWin Student have been down because Monday.

“Once we grew to become mindful of the incident, we quickly took measures to protected our techniques and mitigate the effects to data and functions,” go through an email sent to WindsorNewsToday.ca. “A crew of major exterior cybersecurity authorities was engaged to conduct a comprehensive investigation. This incident has influenced some of our techniques, including the UWindsor site, Blackboard, UWin Student internet site and other University methods, which are temporarily unavailable.” 

The college said its IT Providers Section has been doing work to get most people back again on the web. With some spring and summertime students composing exams, U of W stated it is performing with every person included to make certain that system do the job and exams are concluded.

The college mentioned on Twitter Tuesday afternoon that wireless support is functioning but is spotty in some spots of campus. Nonetheless, the Microsoft Office environment 365 desktop software is nonetheless usable.

🚨 Update 🚨 As IT providers functions to deal with the existing methods outage, please be encouraged that quite a few campus purposes will proceed to be unresponsive. For Microsoft Business 365, the desktop variation ought to continue on to be available. (1 of 2)

— UWindsor (@UWindsor) June 21, 2022

The university’s official web site also went down and is continue to inaccessible as of Wednesday afternoon.

The majority of the student body is off-campus for the summer season.