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French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism

posted by martyb on Saturday April 11 2015, @03:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the how'd-they-do-THAT? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Would somebody more knowledgeable care to explain how they managed this ?

The "unprecedented" cyber-attack on French television channel TV5Monde represents a major "step up" in the Internet warfare being waged by highly specialised jihadist hackers, experts said Thursday.

Since January's three-day Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 17 people, hackers have launched hundreds of assaults on French websites, from denial of service attacks that snarl up web traffic to full-scale hacks.

But taking over a television channel and blocking programming—as happened to TV5Monde—is another matter entirely, experts believe, an "unprecedented" attack, according to the station's boss Yves Bigot.

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-french-tv-hack-cyberjihadism.html

 
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:01AM (#168889)

    Who watches French tv anyways? Some "jihaddists" - a pathetic lot.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:16PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:16PM (#168978) Journal

    "Reality TV" is hyper-anti-muslim. I though you should be VERY aware of this fact.

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