News of the Week 8 August 2020

Referenced Articles:

www.bleepingcomputer.com: Canon confirms ransomware attack in internal memo

www.wired.com: Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry

www.wired.com: Voting Machine Makers Are Finally Playing Nice With Hackers

www.zdnet.com: Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack

arstechnica.com: More than 20GB of Intel source code and proprietary data dumped online

www.theregister.com: ‘We stopped ransomware’ boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by ‘stopped’ he means ‘got insurance to pay off crooks’

threatpost.com: Garmin Pays Up to Evil Corp After Ransomware Attack — Reports

www.theregister.com: First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn’t get the memo

www.govtech.com: Texas School District Forks Over $50K in Ransomware Attack

www.securityweek.com: Colorado City Pays $45,000 Ransom After Cyber-Attack

arstechnica.com: Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches

arstechnica.com: Florida teen charged as “mastermind” in Twitter hack hitting Biden, Bezos, and others

www.darkreading.com Digital Clones Could Cause Problems for Identity Systems

www.darkreading.com 400+ Qualcomm Chip Vulnerabilities Threaten Millions of Android Phones

www.zdnet.com: FBI issues warning over Windows 7 end-of-life FBI Issues Warning on Windows 7 EOL

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