[amsat-bb] Re: ANS-022 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AMSAT-NA Website Down

[Ted]

Whew !!!  But, how do you really feel, Stefan ??

73, K7TRK

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Behalf Of Stefan Wagener
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:14 PM
To: JoAnne Maenpaa
Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ANS-022 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin -
AMSAT-NA Website Down

Thanks JoAnne,

Hopefully the board will now move to a much more simpler, streamlined and
up-to date website. The current one is so bloated and so much out of date it
is pathetic!

Still waiting for our president to update the presidents page after how many
years????

Looking at the store and the only new items for January are the President's
club $4000 plus. What else is new???

Yes, I am very critical and very tired of receiving no up to date
information on Fox or anyy major activities currently being done or being
told it is all ITAR.

But hey, I am also very glad of being a member of AMSAT UK and their website
rocks and I receive up to date info from Trevor every week via the mailing
list. Thanks so much Amsat-Uk!

Stefan, VE4NSA



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:16 AM, JoAnne Maenpaa <k9jkm at comcast.net> wrote:

> AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN
> ANS-022
>
> SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-022.01
> ANS-022 ANS Special Bulletin - AMSAT-NA Website Down
>
> AMSAT News Service Bulletin 022.01
> From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
> January 22, 2013
> To All RADIO AMATEURS
> BID: $ANS-022.01
>
> On or about 20 January 2013, AMSAT-NA's main web site www.amsat.org 
> was compromised by an attacker, with the contents of the supporting 
> database, including non-public information, posted on other publicly 
> available web sites.
>
> It is likely that the attacker gained enough access to the site to 
> post arbitrary and possibly illegal content, so out of an abundance of 
> caution the main site was shut down.
>
> Neither the AMSAT store nor the Fox project web site were affected by 
> this breach. Mail services remain operational.
>
> The main site was developed roughly 10 years ago by a AMSAT volun- 
> teers under a more benign Internet threat environment. The team that 
> built that site is no longer associated with AMSAT, so work has been 
> underway over the last several months to move to a modern, maintain- 
> able, secure infrastructure. This recent breach will accelerate that 
> activity. In the interim, www.amsat.org will have limited content.
>
> [ANS thanks AMSAT's User Services Team for the above information]
>
> /EX
>
>
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