[Milsurplus] ARRL's ransom payment

[Facility 406]

On 8/23/2024 06:43, Ray Fantini via Milsurplus wrote:
> Would have thought most of this was due to people inadvertently 
> downloading crap in their browsers and opening infected attachments? 
> Figured the days of direct attacks on servers were long over in today’s 
> world, unless you servers are managed by idiots....

Even in the 80's on Apple II BBS's, we knew to have a couple of backups, 
and an A/B switch on the external drives.

HACKED!

Flips switch, nobody notices there was a problem...

Something "important", like the ARRL, should have a second disk and an 
A/B switch, decades later, in a different century, in another millennia, 
with the potential of a trillion threats per day.

Well, maybe not...  I wonder what universe they live in?

Kurt