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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @12:01PM
One thing that I can't quite fathom is why they chose to 'expose their abilities' using a second- or third-rate TV station.
Perhaps this is the highest ranking media target they could hack? Larger (and more noteworthy targets) may have had better security. Or they've still got a hard-on for France because of the Charlie Hebdo attack and the attack in that deli? Most terrorist get butt-hurt, and seem to take it personally, when someone fights back.