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

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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @08:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @08:34AM (#168925)

    > Do the idiots in charge of national security

    Why Doesn’t the Intelligence Community Care Whether Its Surveillance Programs Work? [defenseone.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:58AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 11 2015, @10:58AM (#168937) Journal

    So the summary is.. All threats are to be handled by huge costly programs which will go ahead without any evaluation of what would be efficient nor if it is efficient. There will be a lot of side effects and systematic entanglements.

    The point of those programs must to be to enrich some people.