Millions of students in universities and K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas, a classroom management tool used all over the country. EMILY FENG, HOST: Millions of students in universities in K-12 districts had their data compromised this week as a hack took down Canvas. That’s a classroom...Read More
New York (CNN) — A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million...Read More
Disruptions for college students dragged into the weekend after hackers briefly took down an online platform used by thousands of schools around the world, from Princeton University in the U.S. to the University of Manchester in the U.K. and the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Instructure Inc., which runs the Canvas service used by students...Read More
The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it disrupted a major education platform not once but twice over the past few weeks. And the data breach could not have come at a worse time for students and teachers. These events unfurled during school finals at many of the affected institutions. On April 30, Instructure, the edtech company...Read More
A 45-gigabyte data breach just proved the activists right. When cybercrime group ShinyHunters dumped Madison Square Garden’s internal files online after a missed ransom deadline, buried in the haul was a Word document titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx.” Not a security threat assessment. Not an incident report. A file on the people who publicly criticized MSG...Read More
Dialog, the invite-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members and past event participants last week that a database containing their personal information had been breached, supposedly by a criminal hacker. But a WIRED analysis found that the files were readable to anyone who visited a landing page for the group’s app—what cybersecurity experts describe...Read More
MARTINEZ, Calif. (KGO) — A Bay Area man says his Anthropic account was hacked, requesting charges he didn’t authorize. But the tech company says the issue was not caused by the Claude app itself. Jason Weitzman bought an Anthropic membership, using Claude to help build software for his tech company. He says everything was running...Read More
This Keystone Cops-ass administration will not stop getting worse. The FBI, the very same one that brags about investigating “The Cyber Threat,” was just forced to confirm that Iran-linked hackers broke into the personal email of the dorkishly incompetent FBI director, Kash Patel Honestly, the pictures are pretty much what you would expect: Patel with...Read More
Lost access to your Instagram account? Scammers know panic makes people rush. Instagram account recovery scams exploit hacked profiles, fake Meta support pages and stolen login codes to turn a stressful moment into account takeover. Key Takeaways Instagram account recovery scams often pose as Meta, Instagram support, cybersecurity experts or “ethical hackers” who claim they...Read More
The following is a guest article by Chris Skipworth, CEO at Passpack When a hospital gets locked out of its own systems mid-shift, staff reach for paper. Charts get hand-written. Medication orders get verified in hallways. Procedures get delayed. The public got a vivid look at this reality through HBO’s The Pitt, which dramatized the chaos...Read More
