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 ...

Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes about how to ...

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 vast data breach at education platform Canvas this week exposed the vulnerability of student information as hackers increasingly target school systems, colleges and the tech companies they rely on ...

This story has been updated with comments from the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Public Schools. Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and ...

Fast food fans may have found a way to satisfy their In-N-Out cravings without stepping foot inside the beloved California burger chain. McDonald’s customers have been using a custom ordering trick to ...

May 8 (UPI) --Online education platform Canvas suffered a ransomware attack that shut down access in the United States on Thursday. Canvas, used by more than 8,000 schools and universities in the ...

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the ...

ShinyHunters apparently isn't done with edutech giant Instructure. The now-infamous hacking and extortion collective known as ShinyHunters has once again breached Instructure, the education technology ...

View post: The New York Knicks Are NBA Finals Bound—This Is What the World Was Like Back in 1999 "ShinyHunters" hacked Canvas, disabling access for 9,000 schools, demanding ransom and threatening data ...

Shortly after 4 p.m., Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, was hacked by ShinyHunters, a criminal hacker and extortion group. The Canvas webpage for many schools, including Brown, was placed ...

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an ...