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The 2026 Canvas Incident: Could Your LMS Become a Phishing Playbook?
If you’ve been following the news this week, you’ve seen the headlines. Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, disclosed a major cybersecurity incident. Within days, we saw data claims from the threat group ShinyHunters, ransom notes, a...
Instructure/Canvas Incident Communications
UPDATE: Canvas has started to consolidate/archive messaging here:
https://www.instructure.com/incident_update
Additionally, there is a Wikipedia article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Canvas_security_incident
So I’m going to t...
Instructure/Canvas Security Incident, Take 2
I don’t have a lot of information on this one, but Canvas/Instructure has suffered a second incident this afternoon. Users attempting to access Canvas around 3:45PM EDT were met with this notice from ShinyHunters:
It has since been taken...
SupportStudioK12.com is Live: Help Desk and Ticketing Software for How K12 Really Works
I don’t usually do this kind of self-promotional post, but today’s a big day. I’m launching a product I’ve been working on called SupportStudioK12. It’s a new help desk management and ticketing system built by K12 IT practitioners, for K12...
Cyber Risk is an Equity Issue
When a cyber incident disrupts a school district, the technical impact may be uniform: systems go down for everyone. But the educational impact is not the same. Some students merely lose access to instruction temporarily, while others lose...
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