ITTS Update

Now that ALA Connect has launched and usage is growing, ITTS is going to begin planning for the shutdown of the old Online Communities service at the end of this year.

There’s been only one login on the old site in the last 30 days, which was an accident by someone who meant to use Connect instead. We’re not sure if anyone is still using Communities, so we need your help spreading the word. Please let your committees, discussion/interest groups, sections, etc. know about this upcoming change so that they have time to migrate any existing content they want to keep in to ALA Connect.

All content a group wants to save will need to be migrated manually before December 31, 2009. Files will not be retrievable from Online Communities after that date. If any of your groups need advice about how to do this or have specific questions, please have them contact me directly at jlevine [at] ala.org.

Thanks!
Jenny

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It appears that the wikis.ala.org suffered from a hacker attack of some sort.  The exact methodology is not yet clear, but the miscreants placed links to an attack in the .ru (Russia) domain into various files.  I believe i have removed all of the offending links, and have asked Google to review the domain.  Until then, you will get a browser security warning when attempting to reach any of the wikis hosted at wikis.ala.org.

This is a good time to remind everyone of how vital it is to monitor any wikis you have running.  Letting a wiki go unwatched for a long period of time is a formula for this sort of trouble.  We are fortunate that this is the first time a spam or hack attempt has triggered this sort of warning from Google.  Extra vigilance is called for.  Also, let me know if you have a wiki that needs to be retired, so I can erase it permanently and remove one more potential attack point.

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