Google Chrome has sneakily introduced an app for quick sketches. Spotted by Chrome Unboxed, if you open up canvas.apps.chrome you'll be taken to Canvas, which lets you draw stuff within the browser.

A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message claiming to be from the ShinyHunters hacking group. A massive outage of the learning platform started with a ransom message ...

Most users regained access to the platform hours after a hacking group said it had attacked Canvas’s parent company and breached 275 million people’s data. By Hannah Ziegler Canvas, a platform used by ...

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 ...

If you're trying to log in to Canvas by Instructure on Thursday and you're having trouble, you may be wondering: Is it just you? It appears that the answer is: No. DownDetector indicated that there ...

Shinyhunters hacker group has compromised Canvas, the learning management system used by over 8,000 schools and universities. The hackers are demanding ransom by May 12, or data will be released. A ...

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education's dependence on ...

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, ...

Instructure confirms a Canvas breach involving user information and messages as hackers claim 275M users and nearly 9,000 schools were affected. A classroom platform built for homework, grades, and ...

Instructure confirms cyberattack exposing names, emails, IDs, and user communications ShinyHunters claims responsibility, alleging data theft from millions across thousands of schools The incident ...

Instructure has since struck an agreement with ShinyHunters. Read more here. Update 11:25 p.m.: As of Thursday evening, Canvas was largely operational once again. According to an 11:17 p.m. status ...

A "security incident" impacting a popular classroom software caused issues for students at schools across the U.S. on Thursday, including Chicago-area universities like Northwestern and Dominican.