Internet connection for UK Universities, fire service down yesterday.

 Universities across the United Kingdom experienced a blackout on their internet connection due to a cyber attack on a publicly funded computer network for academics, the blackout was also believe to be extended to fire service network.



Network Janet, used by many institutions across the UK, came under a persistent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack yesterday, causing multiple universities to lose their connections, according to The Telegraph.

"The Janet network is experiencing issues again this morning affecting a number of educational institutions including us. We’ll keep you updated,” IT services at the University of Manchester said.

Janet is responsible for the .ac.uk and .gov.uk domains, and is used by thousands of universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. At the time of writing, the network's website was also down.

Many fire services also use the .org domain, with several believed to have also lost their internet connections.

The network confirmed on its Twitter account that a denial of service attack had been identified and that engineers and security teams were working to rectify the problem.