RESEARCH SECURITY

MEDIA BULLETIN

--May 11--

‘Pay or leak’: Hackers target big higher ed vendor

The higher education sector got another reminder over the weekend that it remains a prime target for cybercriminals.

Hackers who have stolen data from Ticketmaster, Google and several high-profile universities kicked off the month of May by breaching Instructure; the education technology company owns the nation’s most popular learning management system, Canvas, which is used by 41 percent of higher education institutions across North America to deliver courses.

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How federal regulations choke US science

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The Trump administration is finding new ways to withhold federal funding for science

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Harvard Canvas site goes down after university listed in Instructure breach

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WH ‘studying’ AI security executive order

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Revealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling

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Pentagon’s botched blacklist highlights frail Trump-Xi truce

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China vows action after EU cuts funding for green projects using Chinese inverters

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Coalition of 26 major organizations urges Congress to pass the DETERRENT Act after exposing widespread failures in foreign funding disclosure

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A value-centric approach to international collaboration

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American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers

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Thousands of vibe-coded apps expose corporate and personal data on the open web

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China’s science and technology strategy in perspective

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‘TrustFall’ convention exposes Claude code execution risk

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US government expands vetting of frontier AI models for security risks

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A science funding system beyond the linear model

USEFUL RESOURCES

Research Security Briefing (Vol. 2, No. 16) - NSF SECURE Center
Job Openings:
- Export Control and Research Security Analyst - Florida Atlantic University
- Director, Research Security (Associate Director or Director), Dean of Research - Stanford University
- Associate Director, Research Security Data Management and Security - New York University
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