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Site Hosting Emma Sulkowicz's Latest Work Disabled By Cyberattack
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/emma-sulkowiczs-this-is-not-a-site-taken-down-by-cyberattack?CMP=edit_2221The service provider hosting the latest visual art project by Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz has confirmed the site was temporarily disabled by a sophisticated cyberattack after the film which she warns “may resemble rape” was published online last week.
Sulkowicz graduated from Columbia in May after completing a year-long performance art project in which she carried a dorm room mattress everywhere she went on campus to protest about the school’s refusal to expel the man she accuses of raping her.
The website hosting Sulkowicz’s video, titled Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol, French for This Is Not a Rape, was hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack last week, in which hackers attempt to force a targeted website offline, according to Keith Anderson, platform support lead at DigitalOcean, where Sulkowicz site is hosted.
“We can confirm that there was a denial of service attack on Thursday,” Anderson said. “On Friday there was also a spike in outbound bandwidth coming from the website, likely due to a sudden increase in traffic and unrelated to the attack, so we worked with their web team to resolve the issue and their site is back up and running.”
Sulkowicz graduated from Columbia in May after completing a year-long performance art project in which she carried a dorm room mattress everywhere she went on campus to protest about the school’s refusal to expel the man she accuses of raping her.
The website hosting Sulkowicz’s video, titled Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol, French for This Is Not a Rape, was hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack last week, in which hackers attempt to force a targeted website offline, according to Keith Anderson, platform support lead at DigitalOcean, where Sulkowicz site is hosted.
“We can confirm that there was a denial of service attack on Thursday,” Anderson said. “On Friday there was also a spike in outbound bandwidth coming from the website, likely due to a sudden increase in traffic and unrelated to the attack, so we worked with their web team to resolve the issue and their site is back up and running.”
This whole thing has gotten a little too Gonzo for me...
