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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) by basicbasicbasic on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:58PM

    by basicbasicbasic (411) on Saturday April 11 2015, @06:58PM (#169035)

    I thought things might change simply because the attacks showed the French people in a sympathetic light on the US news, showed them as vulnerable human beings. I thought that might have finally blown away some of the old bigotry.

    You are now not allowed to even mention the French in anything but reverent tones?

    Not being an asshole does not mean you can only mention the French in "reverent tones", it simply means not being an asshole. You don't have to swing all the way from blind hatred to blind adoration.

    And what was your expectation for when the childish US-bashing in every story here was going to go away?

    Are you suggesting that Americans are bashing the French because of anti-US sentiment? That they then feel the need to bash someone else to even it out? Otherwise I don't see how this is relevant. I don't have to point out every incidence of xenophobia to point out one.