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