How to Stop Browser Fingerprinting, the Latest Method for Tracking Your Activity Across the Internet

Modern browsers now offer opt-in protection against cookie-less tracking APIs that probe your device's hardware to trace ...
techtimes

AWS CloudFront Took Down Canvas, Blackboard, Hugging Face in Control-Plane Failure

At 3:45 a.m. ET on Thursday, July 16, AWS CloudFront began returning 5xx errors to every customer using its VPC Origins feature. Over the next three hours and thirty-three minutes, the outage cascaded ...
Seattle Times

Putting wallpaper on canvas

I keep a mental list of things that I want to want to do: Laze on the beach. Enjoy live music. Go to the movies. Put up wallpaper. None of it will ever happen (and yes, I’ve tried with concerts and ...
Boston Herald

Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas educational platform

The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle ...
Washington Times

Instructure, company behind Canvas learning platform, reaches deal with hackers to recover data

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, said Monday it reached an agreement with hackers to recover recently stolen data. Instructure said it convinced the “unauthorized ...
Chicago Sun-Times

U. of I. reschedules finals after learning platform Canvas reaches deal with hackers

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Los Angeles Times

Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas educational platform

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they ...
CNN

Data stolen in Canvas hack that hit thousands of schools has been returned, company says

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...
The New York Times

Maker of Canvas Learning Platform Strikes Deal for Hackers to Return Data

Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data. By Qasim Nauman See ...
Times of San Diego

Canvas owners identify vulnerability exploited by hackers

This article first appeared in EdSource. The company that owns Canvas, the educational management system used by college and high school students and faculty throughout California, said hackers gained ...
Inside Higher Ed

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers

Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by ...