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IT & cybersecurity
IT & cybersecurity
The UvA is at the heart of the digital world, but sometimes also feels its downsides.
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How well prepared is the UvA for an acute crisis?

22 juni 2026 - 07:30
How well prepared is the UvA for an acute crisis?
Whether it’s a cyberattack that renders Canvas unusable, protesters occupying a building or a pandemic that brings the entire university to a standstill: the parliamentary inquiry reveals that a crisis is just around the corner. So what is the UvA’s crisis preparedness actually like?
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UvA warns for increase in phishing emails: ‘Criminals are impersonating colleagues’

4 juni 2026 - 16:43
UvA warns for increase in phishing emails: ‘Criminals are impersonating colleagues’
The UvA has observed an increase in phishing emails in which criminals impersonate university colleagues. The university announced this on its staff website. Employees are being urged to remain vigilant and not respond to these messages.
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UvA to reopen Canvas from Wednesday morning

12 mei 2026 - 15:48
UvA to reopen Canvas from Wednesday morning
Students and staff will be able to use the digital learning system Canvas again from Wednesday. The UvA announced this in an update. The platform had been offline for several days following a cyberattack in which UvA data was also stolen.
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Five questions about the Canvas hack

11 mei 2026 - 15:00
Canvas is still offline.
The digital learning environment Canvas has been hit by a large-scale cyberattack, in which personal data of students and staff has been stolen. As a precaution, the UvA has taken the system offline, temporarily disrupting education and communication. Five questions about the Canvas hack.
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Update | UvA shuts down Canvas following a cyberattack by the ShinyHunters hacker group

11 mei 2026 - 10:34
Update | UvA shuts down Canvas following a cyberattack by the ShinyHunters hacker group
Data belonging to UvA students, lecturers, and staff has been stolen in a hack targeting Canvas, the digital learning environment also used by the UvA. ICT Services has confirmed the breach. It is not yet known exactly which data has been affected. As a precaution, the UvA is keeping Canvas offline....
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More UvA staff affected by Odido hack than previously thought

9 maart 2026 - 13:18
More UvA staff affected by Odido hack than previously thought
In the large-scale cyberattack on telecom provider Odido, the data of more UvA-employees were stolen than previously assumed. While the university initially believed that a limited group of forty staff members had been affected, the leak now appears likely to involve the data of hundreds of employee...
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New cloud service aims to free higher education from Big Tech’s grip

27 november 2025 - 15:11
New cloud service aims to free higher education from Big Tech’s grip
From January 2026, staff and students in higher education will be able to use Nextcloud, an alternative collaboration environment. Surf, the ICT cooperative for higher education, wants to make universities and colleges less dependent on American big tech companies.
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Signal users are on the rise, but will we ever get rid of WhatsApp?

11 maart 2025 - 12:00
Signal users are on the rise, but will we ever get rid of WhatsApp?
The Signal discussion has been reignited in recent months. Many people now use WhatsApp and Signal at the same time. Will we ever get rid of WhatsApp? Folia asked Geert Lovink, professor of art and network culture at the University of Amsterdam and author of Stuck on the Platform, how we can reclaim...
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Once again slow internet at UvA due to DDoS attacks

17 januari 2025 - 11:12
Once again slow internet at UvA due to DDoS attacks
The UvA is once again experiencing slow internet due to large-scale DDoS attacks on the network. After taking measures, the network seemed stable again yesterday afternoon, but this morning the attacks started again.
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UvA also experiences network disruption due to DDoS attack in south

16 januari 2025 - 11:54
UvA also experiences network disruption due to DDoS attack in south
Thursday morning, universities and hogescholen in the south of the country are plagued by a DDoS attack. The UvA is also affected: the internet is very slow.
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A quarter of a century after the feared millennium bug: how did the night unfold at the hospital?

17 december 2024 - 12:59
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This New Year marks exactly twenty-five years since we worried about the millennium bug, which could cause a global computer crisis. At the UvA and the Amsterdam UMC, people were prepared for the worst. “When people started counting down to zero, you felt the tension rising.”
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UvA most frequently hacked during hack event at Science Park

8 november 2024 - 13:40
UvA most frequently hacked during hack event at Science Park
Nineteen teams of ethical hackers tried to break into IT systems of higher educational institutions last Wednesday. During the reenacted hack, organised by the educational institution to make their IT systems and websites more resilient against cybercrime, the hackers found the most vulnerabilities ...
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