Canvas cyberattack: Company reaches deal with hackers to delete students’ stolen data

In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, universities worldwide came under close scrutiny. Several issued statements in condemnation and expressing sympathy for the victims of violence in Israel and (less frequently) Gaza. Many of them were soon accused of failing to take a strong enough stand, either in support of Israel or denouncing it. In the December 2023 United States congressional hearing on antisemitism in colleges, then president of Harvard Claudine Gay was taken to task for the university’s refusal to fly the Israeli flag on campus following October 7 even though...