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@bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja · 2 hours ago

Canvas, which is used by a huge number of US colleges and universities, has been targeted by a cyberattack -- I've been doing work on the "platformization" and neoliberalization of higher education. I'm really interested in how institutions that are doing crisis comms right now are positioning themselves vis-a-vis Instructure and Canvas.

#academicMastodon #academicChatter #canvas #shinyHunters

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Similar to other colleges and universities across the nation, Canvas is down and unavailable at Virginia Tech. The Division of Information Technology and Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies are working with the vendor, Instructure, to identify and resolve the problem.

Canvas is currently inaccessible and users are encountering a malicious message on login. Technologists and Cybersecurity are aware. We will provide updates as soon as possible

OIT is aware of reports of a cybersecurity incident involving Instructure, the vendor that provides the Canvas Learning Management System to Duke and many other institutions.

Canvas is currently unavailable for the UO and many other institutions. Visitors to the site are receiving an unexpected maintenance message. The vendor behind Canvas, Instructure, is investigating

#shinyhunters #academicmastodon #canvas #academicchatter

Ben Pettis

@bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja · 2 hours ago

Some more directly say "this isn't an *us* problem" while others are more general -- for students trying to turn in work and profs just trying to grade, the distinction of *who* is actually responsible is probably not the top priority right now

#academicMastodon #academicChatter #canvas #shinyHunters

Ben Pettis

@bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja · 2 hours ago

If anyone coming across this post is at an institution that uses Canvas, please send me links/images of how your IT depts are announcing the outage. I'm going to be collating pages over the coming days, but there's thousands of Canvas schools and only one of me!

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a libi rose

@rose_alibi@post.lurk.org · 2 hours ago

@bpettis they... aren't.

canvas.colorado.edu

Canvas is
currently
undergoing
scheduled
maintenance

Check back soon — canvas.colorado.edu Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance Check back soon

J. Nathan Matias 🦣

@natematias@social.coop · 2 hours ago

@rose_alibi @bpettis

exactly the same message at Cornell. "Scheduled" it says!

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