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Cyber-attack on system widely used in US education disrupts final exams

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Cyber-attack on system widely used in US education disrupts final exams

Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic yearA system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on Thursday during a cyber-attack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology.Students quickly t

Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic yearA system that thousands of schools and universities in the US use was offline on Thursday during a cyber-attack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology.Students quickly took to social media to ask if others were unable to access Canvas, with many panicking that they could no longer view course materials housed within the platform to study for their final exams. Continue reading...

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