REN-ISAC communications are normally conducted within the private membership. On occasion we issue public Alerts and Advisories, archived here. As a rule, we do not repeat alerts or advisories that one would normally see elsewhere. We craft alerts and advisories specifically for the research and education community.
2019-01-29 ADVISORY:
DNS Flag Day February 1, 2019
2018-01-05 ADVISORY:
Oracle WebLogic Vulnerability Being Exploited by Bitcoin Miners
2017-05-05 Public Service Announcement:
FBI PSA: Recent Fraud Schemes Targeting Universities and Their Students
2015-05-28 ADVISORY:
Logjam Vulnerability, and Hardening Your Cryptography
2015-02-09 ADVISORY:
Tax Fraud
2014-11-12 ADVISORY:
University Payroll Theft Scheme
2014-10-22 ALERT:
Muzzling the POODLE (While Cleaning Up Other Related Vulnerabilities, Too)
2014-09-25 ALERT:
CRITICAL vulnerability in bash (shellshock)
2014-04-10 ALERT:
CRITICAL Vulnerability In OpenSSL: HeartBleed
2014-03-10 ALERT: NTP-Based Distributed Denial of Service Attacks -
Prevent your institution from being an unwitting partner in these attacks
2013-11-12 ALERT:
Threat to institutional computer accounts by the Adobe breach
2013-05-08 ALERT: Prevent your institution from being an unwitting partner in denial of service attacks
2010-01-14 ALERT: Targeted attacks on institutional online banking