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fromSecuritymagazine
18 hours agoCybersecurity Is No Longer a Gatekeeper, But the Engine of Delivery Across Digital Economy
Cybersecurity is a top fast-growing skill and must be integrated into product delivery, since both protection gaps and misconfigured controls can cause outages, breaches, and lost trust.
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fromSecurityWeek
5 hours agoGovernment to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach
Instructure faced repeated Canvas intrusions, exploited Free-For-Teacher issues, and is temporarily shutting accounts while the House Homeland Security Committee demands incident details.
fromtheregister
9 hours agoCivil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will gather outside Capita's AGM at Sheldon Square, London, from 9:45am on May 18 to demand that the government strips the outsourcer of responsibility for administering civil service pensions after months of delays, botched portal launches, missing payments, bereavement failures, and a data breach that exposed members' personal information.
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#ransomware
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fromtheregister
20 hours agoFoxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files
A ransomware attack hit Foxconn’s North American operations, disrupting some factories but enabling resumption of normal production after response measures.
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fromtheregister
20 hours agoFoxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files
A ransomware attack hit Foxconn’s North American operations, disrupting some factories but enabling resumption of normal production after response measures.
fromSecurityWeek
1 day agoBWH Hotels Says Hackers Had Access to Reservation Data for 6 Months
Emails sent to customers affected by the data breach reveal that the intrusion was discovered on April 22, and an investigation showed that threat actors had access since October 14, 2025.
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#education-technology
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fromTNW | Data-Security
6 days agoShinyHunters breach Instructure Canvas LMS, claim 275M users and 3.65TB of student data from 9,000 schools including 44 Dutch institutions
Hackers exploited Instructure’s Canvas systems, stealing 3.65TB of student and staff data from 275M users across thousands of institutions, including private messages.
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fromTNW | Data-Security
6 days agoShinyHunters breach Instructure Canvas LMS, claim 275M users and 3.65TB of student data from 9,000 schools including 44 Dutch institutions
Hackers exploited Instructure’s Canvas systems, stealing 3.65TB of student and staff data from 275M users across thousands of institutions, including private messages.
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fromThe Verge
5 days agoCanvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools' data
Canvas learning management platform experienced a major outage following a data breach affecting millions of students, with hacking group ShinyHunters demanding ransom before releasing stolen data.
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fromTNW | Data-Security
2 weeks agoUK Biobank data from 500,000 volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba after Chinese research institutions broke access agreements
Data from 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba due to a breach by three Chinese research institutions.
fromArs Technica
2 weeks agoWhy a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden
Current evidence indicates that this data originated from Checkmarx's GitHub repositories, and that access to those repositories was facilitated through the initial supply chain attack of March 23, 2023.
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fromTheregister
2 weeks agoPitney Bowes the latest victim of ShinyHunters' breach-spree
Data breach tracker Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) confirmed the breach on April 27, with 8.2 million unique email addresses included in the dump alongside names, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
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