The LoTW site has been down for over a week since the ARRL was hit by a cyber attack last week.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-syste...ice-disruption
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The LoTW site has been down for over a week since the ARRL was hit by a cyber attack last week.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-syste...ice-disruption
LoTW? Never touch the stuff.
Yeah. Understandably, there hasn't been a lot of transparency about this, and so gossip is filling the information vacuum.
Logbook, you say?
...opens desk drawer, looks at Drake, Radio Shack and ARRL spiral bound logbooks...
Yep; still safe and secure.
WRT "hacks":
In terms of system security, you get what you pay for.
Topic came up during the monthly club breakfast this AM.
Word is that it’s a ransomware attack, but on the ARRL’s ISP(s), not the League itself.
Regardless, the silence is deafening. And N2RJ is looking more and more prescient.
Despite its name, the LoTW was never intended to be a logbook. It's a way to confirm contacts. Since you have to upload contact info to LoTW, you already have the log info stored locally. Anyone who uses LoTW as their only way to keep contact info (and assuming they value that information) is stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by N8YX
Plenty do.Quote:
Originally Posted by W6UV
And I suppose the thing is still down.
Yes, it's still down. Perhaps people will learn their lesson, but I doubt it...
It's the ARRL. They're too arrogant to learn their lesson. "Regulation By Bandwidth" (2x) anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by W6UV
That’s why we need a new ARRL CEO and replace about 2/3 of the Bored, er, Board Of Directors.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ3N
Bur that topic should be a thread in it’s own right.
When I said that perhaps they learned their lesson, I was referring to the people who use LoTW as their one and only copy of their logs, not the ARRL (although I hope the ARRL learns some lessons from this episode as well).Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ3N
The ARRL said a few days ago that they paid $1 million to the hackers who hit them with a ransomware attack in May.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-it-se...ort-to-members
eh. not so surprising.
Well, when we get hit with the next dues increase, now we know what they'll blame it on.
Even though they SHOULD have insurance to cover that loss. (Betcha they don't)
they said that they did, but..
They claimed to have had insurance coverage.
I hope they learned their lesson here. Defense against a ramsomware attack is simple: backups. After the attack, simply wipe all your systems and restore from backups, and then tell the hackers to go fuck themselves.
I don't have much faith in a bunch of trumpist type people making the correct decisions.
My membership was up last month. I let it lapse, partially because of this but mostly because I think that switching the terms of membership midstream is hardly ethical.