THE CUBE
Issue 5 Volume 34 April 2, 2020
BC3 Hit With Ransomware Attack
By: Joe Wells Editor-in-Chief
After a few of days of computer trouble for BC3 students and faculty, the college announced that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack, occurring on February 15 compromised four systems. By February 20, most three of those systems were restored, with the fourth being restored the following week. According to Director of Informa-
tion Technology Matt Miller, the intent of the attack was to encrypt files to force the college into paying money to decrypt them. According to an image the Cube received from BC3, the attackers requested 15 bitcoin (worth roughly $147,000 at the time of the attack). College officials said that no ransom was paid. The college said it was confident that no personal information was compromised during the attack and therefore, did not contact law enforcement.
“The ransomware attack only encrypted files and did not result in stolen or lost data, which is the benchmark BC3 sets for seeking the assistance of law enforcement,” said William Foley, coordinator of news and media content for BC3. The college was assisted by Blue Bastion, a Pittsburgh based cybersecurity firm, to help restore systems. An invoice shows the college paid $9,400 for the security incident response. BC3 President Dr. Nicolas Neupauer said the college does carry insurance
for these types of incidents. Requests for documents relating to the college’s cyber insurance policy were denied citing security concerns. “It is our understanding that hackers could associate ransom levels based on an organization’s insurance limits,” Neupauer said.
Hemingway as Existentialist. Anderson went on to receive his Doctorate of Arts in English from Carnegie-Mellon University. His dissertation, The American Dream in Twentieth-Century California Fiction, included authors such as Jack London, who is the other half of the archetype discussed in Anderson’s book. As a member of The Hemingway Society and with multiple submissions published in The Hemingway Review, Anderson has presented at the bi-annual Hemingway Conference many times. With the support of BC3, he traveled to Venice and Paris to present at Hemingway Conferences. While attending the conference near Hemingway’s family cottage in Michigan, Anderson was shown a library of books that could have been possible inspiration for some of Hemingway’s works. This discovery was the initial step in Anderson’s journey to defining the archetypes put forth in his book. Anderson’s book focuses in on one of the flashback memories the main char-
acter Harry has in Hemingway’s profound short story. While it is not necessary to have read the short story to grasp the concept of this book, it should be read in general as an example of a genius short story. Anderson compares similarities in a single incident to another in a Jack London story, then proceeds to take the reader on an adventure through classic works such as Beowulf and Homer’s Iliad, contemporary works, Shakespeare and modern plays, even to Bob Dylan and Robert Johnson songs, the bible, old English poems and modern movies; he then applies to them these archetypes he discovered inthe story. Readers will take away from this book both a list of great works to read, as it is unlikely any other one person has read every example mentioned in this book, and the ability to apply the archetypes Anderson has revealed to everything they read in the future. Anderson’s archetypes ask more important questions about the origin of stories, questioning whether the inspiration comes from within the author, or whether they are
deeper and part of the universal human experience. “Provocative analysis,” “intriguing interpretation,” and “breathtaking vistas” are just a few of the phrases used to describe Anderson’s book which is available in hardback and as an e publication from Kent State Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or almost any site books are sold online.
Retired Professor Publishes Book
By: Melissa Salsgiver Submitted Article
David L. Anderson has the distinction of publishing the first full-length book on Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Anderson’s book, Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality, has a much greater purpose than just discussing Hemingway’s short story though. Anderson was a tenured English professor at Butler County Community College teaching English 101 and 102, English Literature, American Literature, Shakespeare, Classical Mythology and Detective Fiction before retiring in 2017. Since his retirement, Anderson has become Managing Editor of the August Wilson Journal and had his book, Archetypal Figures in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: Hemingway on Flight and Hospitality, published by Kent State University Press. Anderson is not new to Hemingway literature. His Master’s Thesis at California University of Pennsylvania, was on
Melissa Salsgiver is 1997 BC3 Graduate and was a staff writer for the Cube from 1995 to 1997.
David L. Anderson has published the first fulllength book on Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows
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of Kilimanjaro.” (Photo/Julian Warsing)