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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @05:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @05:47AM (#169251)

    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

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 12 2015, @03:28PM (#169340) Journal

    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.