The entity may experience some bumps. See The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (wired.com).
Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Moodle in English -> Lounge -> The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (wired.com)
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
https://www.wired.com/story/canvas-hack-shinyhunters-ransomware-instructure/
(found in https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/0622227/the-canvas-hack-is-a-new-kind-of-ransomware-debacle )
Yet another reason for distributed sites!
In the meantime somebody on Mastodon asks, whether AI is could be involved
Instructure And OpenAI Harness The Power Of AI To Transform Learning
Source https://fosstodon.org/@zl2tod@mastodon.online/116536889976372598
Moodle in English -> Security and privacy -> CVE-2026-31431 - Will Moodle continue to function without problems after a kernel update? -> CVE-2026-31431 - Will Moodle continue to function without problems after a kernel update?
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
In theory, Moodle should work when the Server requirements in its Release notes, eg. https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.5, are satisfied. I doesn't react to the kernel version as long as those software it depends on do function.
As you see here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=474096 no Moodle is still directly impacted.
Moodle in English -> Quiz and question banks -> Problem with questionaries: Undefined error on GUI / Timeouts -> Problem with quiz: Undefined error on GUI / Timeouts when duplicating
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
I know, it had been some time.
Does the problem still exist (with the latest Moodle 4.5 and Coderunner)?
Can you isolate the problem to Coderunner? I mean, you duplicate quizzes which don't have Coderunner questions?
Does the problem still exist (with the latest Moodle 4.5 and Coderunner)?
Can you isolate the problem to Coderunner? I mean, you duplicate quizzes which don't have Coderunner questions?
Moodle in English -> Quiz and question banks -> Quiz fails to duplicate - UNDEFINED -> Quiz fails to duplicate - UNDEFINED
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
Hi
I was not offended - there's nothing to apologize. True, that the language was curt. But we are not socializing here, I'm not.
About the pronoun, yeah, the problem is well-recognized. Listen to the mouse:
I was not offended - there's nothing to apologize. True, that the language was curt. But we are not socializing here, I'm not.
About the pronoun, yeah, the problem is well-recognized. Listen to the mouse:
I proceed. "Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"'
`Found what?' said the Duck.
`Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: `of course you know what "it" means.'
`I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: `it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?'
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-III.html
`Found what?' said the Duck.
`Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: `of course you know what "it" means.'
`I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: `it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?'
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-III.html
Yes, I too had (probably still having) balooning question banks and all kinds of resulting performance issues up to the server crashing and leaving broken data. I have that discussed in many threads here in the Quiz forum and also compiled summaries. Just search the forum. No, I'm tired of repeating them.
And talking of "the problem", since in my usage, I know the problem only after solving it. That is why I have problems that vanish themselves (they'll return at the wrong time) or healed after I applied five medicines (which one was the right one?)
Before you invest too much, in those and many more discussions the "problem" is understood to be the symptoms. Symptoms and the causes are the two most difficult things to separate. Imagine a group of seniors seated around a table and sharing their ailments and the medicine (without a clue on the lab reports, the diagnosis, life pattern that caused them, or geneology, or Karma). We are in that situation more often than we want to.