The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.The assault left Moodle – an open-source learning platform – out of action for several hours on Thursday morning before normal service was restored.Technicians initially estimated problems were down to firewall configuration issues, before realising actual humans were behind the problem, as status messages on the ULCC website explain.All our services are now up and running again! The networking issue was caused by a cyber-attack.We have taken action to block the source. An incident report will be produced and shared in due course.
Read on, source: DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform • The Register
We’ve got the Android M preview installed on some devices already, and we’re beginning to dig down past the major improvements that Google announced on stage earlier today. One of these is an improvement to Android’s backup system—if you choose to back up your device with a Google account, apps that target Android M and newer will have all of their data and settings backed up by default. That data can then be downloaded and restored to your phone if you get a new one or need to wipe it for some reason.
