News of the Week for 10 October 2020

<p>Hospitals pay ransom in bitcoin, illegitimate news sites, clinical trials were hacked, so as the UN, and an ISP Apologies, all this week.</p> <p>- www.uhsinc.com: Statement from Universal Health Services: Updated Monday, October 5, 2020, 12:30 PM ET</p> <p>- www.zdnet.com: Microsoft's Azure AD authentication outage: What went wrong</p> <p>- www.bleepingcomputer.com: New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak</p> <p>- www.bleepingcomputer.com: Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack</p> <p>- arstechnica.com: Botched Excel import may have caused loss of 15,841 UK COVID-19 cases</p> <p>- www.nytimes.com: Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm</p> <p>- www.meritalk.com: DHS Sees No Threat to Vote Tallies, Warns of Election Outcome Lag</p> <p>- www.cyberscoop.com: SEC settles with trader accused of illegal trades using hacked data</p> <p>- thehill.com: US seizes 92 domains used by Iran for 'global disinformation campaign'</p> <p>- www.infosecurity-magazine.com: UN Shipping Agency Forced Offline After Cyber-Attack</p> <p>- www.theregister.com: Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers</p> <p>- threatpost.com - Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks</p> <p>- www.fbi.gov: The China Threat: Foreign Intelligence Services Use Social Media Sites to Target People with Security Clearances</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/professor-cyber-risk/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/professor-cyber-risk/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/professor-cyber-risk/support</a>