• Question: have any of you ever been targeted by a cyber attack?

    Asked by anon-202031 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Luckily, no and I hope it stays that way

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      There is a big emphasis on cyber security for our lab, which reduces the chance of cyber attack.
      If there were to be a cyber attack in future though, it’d be cool if it came from aliens.

    • Photo: Sophia Pells

      Sophia Pells answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Luckily no successful ones! A few months ago we noticed that an IP from China was trying to guess the password to get in to some of our machines. They never managed to guess anyone’s password and we blocked them from trying again.

    • Photo: George Fulton

      George Fulton answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Thankfully not. But the company where I work get lots of attempted attacks, apparently around 800 a week, but most are minor phishing attacks and nothing malicious has got through so far!

    • Photo: Andy Buckley

      Andy Buckley answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      The CERN lab where I’ve worked for years gets targeted a lot, but nothing that’s had any impact in recent years, I think. When online security was a relatively new thing, there were occasional network outages which were quite annoying, but never any risk to life or equipment as far as I know. The destructive cyber incidents in my places of work have always been more cock-up than conspiracy!

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      Emily Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I’m about to start working in the security centre for our cloud data, my new team recently showed me how many people try to access our systems every day- it’s hundreds or thousands! But usually these are just people trying our IP address because it’s public, it’s not a sophisticated targeted attack and they don’t get through our firewall.

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