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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
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:07AM
(1) Great new cyber-word. Hacking for political lulz is now jihad! Are we going to send them to cybergitmo?
perhaps you should look up first understand what a jihad is.
1: a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty
also, cyberjihad is not a new term, it dates back to at least a decade. see https://books.google.com/books?id=yf83KZZbeQIC [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @08:30AM
> perhaps you should look up first understand what a jihad is.
Thanks, I'll get right on that!
> also, cyberjihad is not a new term, it dates back to at least a decade.
Hhhm, I wonder why you had that reference at hand...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:11AM
Hhhm, I wonder why you had that reference at hand...
When I googled for references to "cyberjihad" from before 2010, the first one on the list was the above. But I'm sure it's his assignment to cover SN and make sure we all known that cyberjihad is at least ten years old.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:39AM
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @05:47AM
If the guy claiming it isn't a new word had to google it in order prove it wasn't new then that negates his argument. There are hundreds of thousands of not-new words that nobody uses but you can still find mention of with google.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 12 2015, @03:28PM
If the guy claiming it isn't a new word had to google it in order prove it wasn't new then that negates his argument.
Unless of course, Google delivers the proof, then the argument isn't negated. I recall reading the same argument over "climate change". Google solved that one too.
Now whether the use of "cyberjihad" from 2006 or whenever actually demonstrates the original poster's claim, that's a different issue.