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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: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday April 11 2015, @04:19PM
Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition is a common type of industrial control system. It is often used to control TV networks, not just manufacturing plants.
The people who design that stuff in my actual experience are brilliant industrial engineers but very poor software engineers. There is commonly very little, if any in the way of security.
The people who actually install the packages may not know anything at all about computers, or not a whole lot more than my aged mother. That's why the product I used to work on didn't run on Linux - in the exact words of the company's founder, "The reason we don't run on Linux, is that on Linux, know one knows how to copy a file".
Consider that Stuxnet and Flame attacked a Siemens HMI/SCADA system.
It's not like the Iranians don't know how to write computer programs.
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