County administrator: VPN was hit with nearly 3,000 hits from identified external source; IT deployed fixes
Administrator Deb Erickson reported a targeted attack on the county VPN that generated nearly 3,000 hits from an identified external source; the IT team took the VPN down, pushed a new security solution and deployed it across machines in about 48 hours with no successful intrusion reported.
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County Administrator Deborah Erickson told the board that the county experienced a cybersecurity incident affecting its virtual private network (VPN). "What we saw last week was there was an attack that was happening. In fact, just under 3,000 hits on our VPN that all generated from a source that was identified in Russia," Erickson said, adding the attack was not successful.
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