Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
2026-05-11T08:51:53Z•c45b3c0aed222c03c4d7486b3d27def0d2f8420f7d2a884e435b154369762fbb
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What happened
Ars Technica's recent security feed highlights a wave of high-impact incidents: supply-chain compromises (Daemon Tools backdoor; attacks affecting security vendors like Checkmarx and Bitwarden), large-scale router compromises attributed to Russia's military, and Iran-linked disruption of US critical infrastructure. A new, highly severe Linux vulnerability called "CopyFail" threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD pipelines, containers and Kubernetes; an Ubuntu infrastructure outage has hampered coordination around a separate critical root escalation issue. Other notable items: an open-source npm/
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