Garmin Connect Down - And made me think...

[dodgy]

This is sounding quite bad for Garmin.
https://threatpost.com/garmin-suffers-ransomware-attack/157698/

 

[Hacienda71]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53531178
Loaded my ride today directly to Strava. You would have thought a company so heavily involved in IT would have pretty robust defences.

 

[GetFatty]

This is sounding quite bad for Garmin.
https://threatpost.com/garmin-suffers-ransomware-attack/157698/

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And the clicky noise thing doesn't work

 

[gunja99]

More than likely got in due to human error or social phishing. Sometimes the easiest way. Wish they'd come out and say a little morem took 7/8 hours for anything to go online at all.

Twitter was social engineering too the other week.

 

[dodgy]

And the clicky noise thing doesn't work

Quite fitting that my auto-sig was the lure for a pretty successful phishing test as a youngish penetration tester in the late 90s 🤷‍♂️
It's benign now, no code behind it. Totally safe, honest.

 

[Sniper68]

It's been down almost 48hours now.I keep getting notifications stating"planned maintenance" between 16:00-20:00....they're not saying which day though
I think it's a bit more serious than they are letting on

 

[RoubaixCube]

Dont know if its been mentioned here but its been confirmed that Garmin have been hit by a ransomware attack which has taken down their services. Ive also head that the same ransomware has taken their factories out of production.

 

[dodgy]

People will soon figure out how to upload to Strava without Garmin, and before you know it will wonder why they need Garmin.

 

[CXRAndy]

Stopped using Garmin quite a few years ago due to their clunky UI and reluctance to link with Strava.

I know they eventually got their act together, by then I'd moved to Wahoo- not looked back

 

[gunja99]

Stopped using Garmin quite a few years ago due to their clunky UI and reluctance to link with Strava.

I know they eventually got their act together, by then I'd moved to Wahoo- not looked back

I personally find Garmin stats and information better than Strava, but Strava is better for the social side. I tried a trial of Strava but didn't continue as the insights Garmin give are great. This issue not withstanding

 

[BigMeatball]

Guess it's the make it thinner and lighter...

More like the fact that everything is in the cloud so there's really no need for physical storage anymore. First it was the dvd players, then the usb sticks....they all disappear sooner or later

 

[gunja99]

More like the fact that everything is in the cloud so there's really no need for physical storage anymore. First it was the dvd players, then the usb sticks....they all disappear sooner or later

DVD drives I get. Being able to plugin external monitors keyboards and mice (has well as your Garmin...) is very useful though a universal bus that is serial 🤣😄

 

[CXRAndy]

Im not so bothered about the minutiae of ride/exercise data. I want a streamlined, simple and reliable platform. There are better more detailed platforms like Cheetah

 

[vickster]

My Wahoo hadn’t been reliably uploading to Strava on iOS for what seems like months. Although this would appear to be a poor time to switch back to Garmin
Much nicer looking unit though 👍

 

[MrGrumpy]

Garmin still got issues ? My app not wanting to launch on my iPhone ?? Keeps closing down when opened ?