Episode description

Hospitals pay ransom in bitcoin, illegitimate news sites, clinical trials were hacked, so as the UN, and an ISP Apologies, all this week.

- www.uhsinc.com: Statement from Universal Health Services: Updated Monday, October 5, 2020, 12:30 PM ET

- www.zdnet.com: Microsoft's Azure AD authentication outage: What went wrong

- www.bleepingcomputer.com: New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak

- www.bleepingcomputer.com: Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack

- arstechnica.com: Botched Excel import may have caused loss of 15,841 UK COVID-19 cases

- www.nytimes.com: Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm

- www.meritalk.com: DHS Sees No Threat to Vote Tallies, Warns of Election Outcome Lag

- www.cyberscoop.com: SEC settles with trader accused of illegal trades using hacked data

- thehill.com: US seizes 92 domains used by Iran for 'global disinformation campaign'

- www.infosecurity-magazine.com: UN Shipping Agency Forced Offline After Cyber-Attack

- www.theregister.com: Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers

- threatpost.com - Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

- www.fbi.gov: The China Threat: Foreign Intelligence Services Use Social Media Sites to Target People with Security Clearances