submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu
Hello fellow Auggies,
We recently had two unexpected moodle outages during the day — 10/14 at about 2:20PM and 10/15 at about 10:50AM. Both times were attacks on moodle from the internet attempting to overwhelm our server and make it unavailable which they succeeded in doing for a period of time. On 10/15 we started adjusting our cyber defenses to fend off such attacks and are monitoring our network closely.
This was not a hack or compromise but what is called a “denial of service attack” which means someone just wants to overload our server. On 10/15 there were over 120 servers attacking the moodle server in a coordinated fashion.
We apologize for the unexpected interruption to moodle access and for any course disruption that may have caused.
If you encounter a moodle outage, faculty and staff can contact their LFC https://sites.augsburg.edu/it/get-help/faculty-and-staff-support-lfcs/ and students can contact the Tech Desk https://sites.augsburg.edu/techdesk/ .
If you have any questions please let me know,
Scott Krajewski, ’94, MBA ’21
AVP for IT
krajewsk@augsburg.edu