Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute targeted by cyberattack

2 points

5 years ago

Last week RPI's entire network was shut down during finals week due to an undisclosed breach of their network. All finals after the breach were cancelled.

Some things are back online, but the institute is not requiring students and faculty to install Crowdstrike Falcon EDR monitoring software on all devices that connect to the university.

Students and faculty are upset at being left in the dark on the issue and forced to install monitoring software, given RPI's terrible record of student rights in the past (Recipient of FIRE's Lifetime Censorship Award).

Below are statements from the university as well as Reddit threads regarding the incident.

https://twitter.com/rpi/status/1390786944284692486

https://twitter.com/rpi/status/1392554835656990731

https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comments/n7ry0a/rpi_faculty_in_dark_about_cyberattack_ecse2500/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comments/nbiqq9/attn_faculty_say_no_to_edr_software_for_network/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RPI/comments/nb3uy5/question_for_staff_and_admin_what_reassurances_do/