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“The dependency of so many educational institutions on Canvas is certainly a systemic risk,” says JHU CS & Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute’s Anton Dahbura. “Therefore, colleges should require stronger security measures plus resilience plans and alternatives for instruction during outages.”

Massive Canvas data breach hits colleges across California and nation, crippling student work A massive data breach of the Instructure Canvas learning system hit UC, CSU, USC, Stanford and Los Angeles community colleges, among other schools across the nation. A criminal group called ShinyHunters claimed credit for the hack.

"In the old days, usually [it would] take an expert maybe a month to really come up with those complicated attacks. Recently, with the help of AI, [it takes] sometimes maybe one or two days, they can really come up with those complicated attacks," says JHU CS and the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute’s Yinzhi Cao.

Maryland students react to Canvas data breach An online learning management system is back online after a cyberattack created chaos for local school districts and colleges in Maryland.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johns Hopkins University researcher Suchi Saria’s AI-powered early warning system, which can detect sepsis faster than doctors—saving thousands from a condition that claims more than 250,000 lives each year in the U.S.

FDA approves early warning system for sepsis The AI system detects deadly infections faster than doctors, saving thousands of lives from a condition that claims more than 250,000 lives each year in the U.S.