The Garmin hack was apparently a ransomware attack where all their files were encrypted with a ransom note to buy the decryption key, rumored to be a $10M ransom. This is getting to be pretty common now days and a number of hospitals have had to pay the ransom to regain access to their own records. It is not clear whether Garmin restored from backups or paid the ransom. I would hope they refused, but since they are not commenting, I suspect they paid. I also strongly suspect it was a similar attack with QT and other self serve Avgas outlets that were down for a week roughly 6 weeks ago. Nobody has ever commented to say why they were down other than to say it was a computer problem. Sounds like another ransomware attack to me.
As for flying, weather permitting I'll be in the Dallas area in my KR tomorrow. One more reminder that my KR is for sale. I need to move it, so now's the time to make a reasonable offer. This plane is about the best performance and best equipped you can buy, and is about the best bang for the buck in aviation. For building, I'm slogging along on the rebuild of the wrecked RV-6 I bought this spring. The airframe repairs are now complete. I'm down the the engine overhaul and have parts in various shops in Tulsa, Dallas, and Santa Fe. I am hoping to have all the parts back to start building the engine in 5 - 6 weeks and should have the plane flying sometime this fall. -Jeff Scott Arkansas Ozarks > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 at 7:32 AM > From: "Flesner via KRnet" <krnet@list.krnet.org> > To: krnet@list.krnet.org > Cc: "Flesner" <fles...@frontier.com> > Subject: KR> Garmin computer hack > > > Hackers toppled Garmin networks > > > Company recovering from four-day outage > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Someone hacked my round gauges once. My pitot / static assembly got > bumped off line by 30 degrees or so in the hangar and my comprehensive > preflight did not catch it. 20 or 30 feet in the air I realized the ASI > was not reading correctly. I verified the failure at altitude and > simply disregarded it for landing. I wonder if that's why my road map > Garmin sent me up a one way street with no exit. > > Is anyone building or flying now days? I'm getting more junk mail than > KRnet and it is not nearly as interesting. > > Larry Flesner _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
