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Hosts: Jonah Reed & Rhea Malik In this episode: • Good morning. It's May 11, 2026, and this is Pivot Security. I'm Jonah Reed. • And I'm Rhea Malik. Three stories today that all point at the same theme: when the platform underneath you breaks, your week breaks with it. • Right. Let's start with Canvas. Instructure's learning management system was hit by a cyberattack late last week that knocked the platform offline dur... • Instructure hasn't publicly characterized the attack vector yet, and that matters. Canvas serves thousands of institutions, and if this was a DDoS, th... • For business leaders listening who aren't in education, the read-across is straightforward: any SaaS platform that mediates a hard deadline — payroll,... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.

Hosts: Jonah Reed & Rhea Malik In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Security for Thursday, May 7th, 2026. I'm Jonah Reed. • And I'm Rhea Malik. If you run Linux servers, patch Windows endpoints, or sign off on AI procurement, today's briefing hits all three. Let's start wit... • Right. The bug researchers are calling CopyFail is a local privilege escalation in the kernel's copy-on-write path. Public proof-of-concept dropped ov... • The exploit is reliable across most distributions running kernels from late 2024 forward, including default Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and RHEL 9.4 builds. It n... • Cloud workloads are the immediate concern. AWS, GCP, and Azure have all pushed updated images, but customer-managed instances are on you. CISA added i... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.