Daily bread 06/30/2020

• Colombia's capital may lock down again to prevent healthcare collapse

  • on a crash course
  • an occupancy rate
  • seek to
  • urging him
  • stepped up pressure
  • would generate chaos
  • rushed to restart the economy
  • expected to peak.
  • being decimated by
  • oblivious to the alarms

• How hackers extorted $1.14m from University of California, San Francisco - BBC News

  • A leading medical-research institution
  • paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom
  • a covert negotiation
  • The Netwalker criminal gang
  • staff unplugged computers
  • malware
  • an anonymous tip-off
  • the dark web
  • ransomware attacks
  • At first glance,
  • ticking down
  • the data they have scrambled
  • UCSF was met with the following message
  • begged them to accept $780,000
  • back-and-forth negotiations
  • it had pulled together all available money
  • it had procured more money
  • serving the public good
  • pay some portion of the ransom
  • in exchange for
  • It would be a mistake to assume that all of the statements and claims made in the negotiations are factually accurate
  • a pinky-promise
  • a booby-trapped emaiI
  • phishing lures

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.