Hackaday

If You Want To Hack Me, Come In Through The Speaker

Some security hacks require someone to have physical access to your computer. In many cases, that’s easy to mitigate. Other ...
Forbes

Cybercriminals Are Making Powerful Hacking Tools With AI, Google Warns

Cybercriminals created a zero-day exploit with AI, the first example of artificial intelligence finding and hacking software for an illicit enterprise, the tech giant says in a new report. Over the ...
Forbes

After The Canvas Hack, Here’s What Students And Colleges Should Do Next

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Canvas hack left students scrambling to study for finals. Last Thursday, as students at ...
Mashable

Instructure Canvas hack update: Breach involved a specific teacher account type and interrupted finals

Students have struggled with Canvas downtime due to a data breach during school finals. Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it ...
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, ...
CNET

Canvas Hack Aftermath: Congress Wants Instructure to Answer Questions

A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering ...
The Guardian

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and ...
BBC

Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.
KQED

Canvas Hack: Instructure Agrees to Ransom Deal in Exchange for Stolen Data

Data stolen in last week’s widespread cyberattack on an educational platform that affected students and schools across the Bay Area and the country has been returned, the targeted company said Monday.
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 ...
Hackaday

Hacking A Video Walkie Talkie’s TXW818 MCU And Running DOOM

Recently cheapo video walkie-talkies popped up on everyone’s favorite online retailers, which naturally lured in the usual gaggle of reverse-engineering enthusiasts of cheap tat to see ...