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Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …
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Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse
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Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]
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Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.
·bleepingcomputer.com·
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach
County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach
Following a break-in at a county health contractor's office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data.
·latimes.com·
County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach
Was VA Secretary Misled About Breaches?
Was VA Secretary Misled About Breaches?
Leaders of the House Veterans Affairs Committee suggest that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki may have been misled about multiple breaches of department computers since
·databreachtoday.com·
Was VA Secretary Misled About Breaches?
Article: Data Breaches Compromised 4.5 Billion Records In First Half of 201
Article: Data Breaches Compromised 4.5 Billion Records In First Half of 201
According to Gemalto's 2018 Breach Level Index, 291 data records were compromised every second in the first half of this year, resulting in widespread identity theft, account and financial hacks, and more.
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Article: Data Breaches Compromised 4.5 Billion Records In First Half of 201
Article: CPS data breach exposes private student data
Article: CPS data breach exposes private student data
Chicago Public Schools apologized Friday evening for a mass email accidentally linking to the private data of thousands of students and families.
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Article: CPS data breach exposes private student data