Chika Onyenwere

Walkthrough of Our Cryptography Teaching Aide Project

Our cryptography project was designed to make complex security concepts clear, visual, and practical especially for learners who struggle to connect everyday password habits with the underlying math and mechanisms that keep systems secure. The walkthrough serves as the companion guide to the narrative video, breaking each concept into digestible steps. We start by grounding …

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Cracking the Habit: A Cryptographic Look at Everyday Password Failures

Every year, billions of passwords leak online not because attackers are guessing them one by one, but because the systems meant to protect those passwords fail in predictable, preventable ways. Our graduate teaching‑aide project, Cracking the Habit: A Cryptographic Look at Everyday Password Failures, takes a closer look at those failures and the cryptography that …

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Virtual Classroom Hacked: Supply Chains, Data Breaches, and Canada’s New Privacy Push

Source: 2026 Canvas Breach In May 2026, the University of Alberta found itself caught in a global cybersecurity incident involving Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). While the breach impacted approximately 9,000 institutions and 275 million people globally, it hit particularly close to home for students and faculty right …

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