@@StarShipAdventures I agree, they require device certificates defeating cheaters adding of fraudulent QSO data; in order to protect the integrity of the ARRL DXCC Program...😅😅😅😅
1:25 "Sophisticated" ransomware incident. There is no sophistication in ransomware attacks, just a massive failure to keep your own systems secure. The ransomware attack is what happens when some criminal fool happens to find a victim that is a even bigger fool. Calling this a "sophisticated" attack is just a way to imply that the attacker was a criminal mastermind and you had no chance to do anything about it. If I had to guess, I'd say the whole system was running on Windows, used MS-Exchange and people used Outlook and Active Directory. They probably had someone who kept it running without getting paid for it. I don't know the internals of the ARRL but I guess based on other such incidents. And they always talk about "sophisticated cyber criminals that can take over everything by loooking at it". And now I'll unpause the video and listen to the details after the "sophisticated malware incident" ;)
I completely Agree with you! When the term "sophisticated malware incident" is used by an organization, they want you to feel that there was no way that they could have avoided it. In fact this incident, like most others, are completely avoidable.
I figured-out LoTW several years ago... I like the feature added 2-3 years ago, that you do not need 3rd party logging software to upload QSOs.
It is a complicated mess! It could be made much simpler and easier to use.
@@StarShipAdventures I agree, they require device certificates defeating cheaters adding of fraudulent QSO data; in order to protect the integrity of the ARRL DXCC Program...😅😅😅😅
Amount of fraud this complicated system has prevented??? ZERO... Time Wasted?? Millions of Hours of Hams Time.
Watching the REPLAY . Thanks for the interesting videos from Starship Adventures .
1:25 "Sophisticated" ransomware incident.
There is no sophistication in ransomware attacks, just a massive failure to keep your own systems secure. The ransomware attack is what happens when some criminal fool happens to find a victim that is a even bigger fool. Calling this a "sophisticated" attack is just a way to imply that the attacker was a criminal mastermind and you had no chance to do anything about it.
If I had to guess, I'd say the whole system was running on Windows, used MS-Exchange and people used Outlook and Active Directory. They probably had someone who kept it running without getting paid for it. I don't know the internals of the ARRL but I guess based on other such incidents. And they always talk about "sophisticated cyber criminals that can take over everything by loooking at it".
And now I'll unpause the video and listen to the details after the "sophisticated malware incident" ;)
I completely Agree with you! When the term "sophisticated malware incident" is used by an organization, they want you to feel that there was no way that they could have avoided it. In fact this incident, like most others, are completely avoidable.
I still can't get my LOTW new account set up....
They have purposely made it much more complicated than it needs to be period it's absolutely ridiculous