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> When alerted by the Library following discovery of the attack, Jisc (who provide the Library’s internet access and monitor movement of data across their networks) identified that an unusually high volume of data traffic (440GB) had left the Library’s estate at 1.30am on 28 October.

"Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation."

State-owned quango asleep at the wheel. Unsurprising.

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> State-owned quango asleep at the qwheel. Unsurprising.

This used to be what we called JANET. Back in the day this was top banana and prestigious to work for like GCHQ etc.

I expect they've died from a thousand cuts under the Tories. Every university I've been in the past 10 years have their ICT run by Microsoft, and is absolute rubbish.

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Could you elaborate why them being state owned was a contributing factor? We’ve seen countless similar incidents with private MSSPs as well.

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Because the state (eh) of State-owned or state-adjacent anything, in modern Britain, is simply terrible. The dominant Thatcherite ideology ensures that state-provided services are almost invariably second-rate, thanks to systemic under-funding.

In this case, it looks like Jisc was basically turned into a charity in 2011, so technically they're not even state-owned anymore.

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The library's ISP said "yes, our monitoring shows you shifted an unusual amount of traffic" at that time.

My ISP could do the same thing. How is that being asleep at the wheel?