In July, security researchers found a serious bug in WordPress. People are calling it WP2Shell. Josh Koenig, co-founder of the WebOps hosting company Pantheon, said it best in a recent interview with EdTech Connect: "This is the most serious WordPress security update ever." He's not exaggerating. On most WordPress sites, this bug lets an attacker take over the whole site without even logging in. No password needed. That's about as bad as a bug can get, and it was sitting insi

If you'd polled college students on Tuesday last week what they wanted most, Canvas outage would've cracked the top three. Finals week timing? Undefeated. No quizzes submitted. No grades posted. No professor emails about incomplete assignments. Then ShinyHunters made it happen. Thousands of students were redirected to an extortion demand instead of their course materials last week, the Canvas breach became a problem about more than data. It became a problem about trust—and In