News of the Week for 3 October 2020

A Microsoft Major outrage, 911 went down, the 2nd Largest HIPPA penalty ever, Russian Hacker goes to Jail, and a Teenager hacked a school all this week.  

– arstechnica.com: Paying ransomware demands could land you in hot water 

– home.treasury.gov: Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments

– www.reuters.com: Universal Health Services says its network is ‘still down’ 

– www.wired.com: A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain 

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: Microsoft Office 365 is down in the USA, shows ‘transient’ error 

– www.zdnet.com: Office 365 outage with roll back failure ends after more than six hours 

– www.zdnet.com: 911 services down in multiple US states 

– www.govtech.com: Massachusetts Hospital Investigates ‘Data Security Incident’ 

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: Hackers leak files stolen in Pakistan’s K-Electric ransomware attack 

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: Swiss watchmaker Swatch shuts down IT systems to stop cyberattack 

– www.darkreading.com: Russian National Sentenced to 7+ Years for Hacking US Tech Firms 

– www.zdnet.com: North Korea has tried to hack 11 officials of the UN Security Council 

– www.bleepingcomputer.com: Blackbaud: Ransomware gang had access to banking info and passwords 

– www.infosecurity-magazine.com: OCR Imposes $6.85M Penalty Over Data Breach 

– www.theregister.com: IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

 – www.bleepingcomputer.com: The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online 

– www.infosecurity-magazine.com: Student Arrested Over Cyber-attacks on Indiana Schools