France's culture minister is to call an urgent meeting of French media groups to assess their vulnerability to hacking after the public service television network TV5Monde was taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State, blacking out broadcasts as well as hacking its websites and Facebook page.
All TV5Monde broadcasts were brought down in a blackout between 10pm and 1am local time on Wednesday to Thursday by hackers claiming allegiance to Isis. They were able to seize control of the television network founded by the French government in 1984, simultaneously hacking 11 channels as well as its website and social media accounts.
Update: Hacked French network exposed its own passwords during TV interview (h/t betacamsp)
Not to worry this was just the 'JV' team in their pre-game warm-up.
Why are young men flocking to the black flag of the Islamic State?
Because it's the biggest, meanest, coolest gang on the planet.
Hacking my arse. More likely an inside job - the consequences of unreservedly "embracing" employment equity legislation.
Maybe they could do us all a favor and do the same thing to the CBC. Although I'm sure they would view the CBC as friend, not foe.
Chuckle - http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/hacked-french-network-exposed-its-own-passwords-during-tv-interview/
Barbarians through the gate.
the Frenchies have been inviting them in for years. well past the 10% threshold now.
I'm sure Her Thighness HRC's homemade server was never hacked. Can there be any doubt?
Exactly what I was thinking but who would know it was down?
Unebelievable.
"lemotdepassedeyoutube"
How many times over how many decades do people need to be told?
"Password" is NOT a safe password. With this kind of rank stupidity TV5Monde deserved to have its entire network taken down.
I have come to believe that radical Islam may now be a permanent part of our modern world.
Why, you may rightfully ask? Their immense weakness, the thing that would stop them dead, is coveted and protected by too many westerners and others to be openly targeted, let alone even acknowledged as a problem.
That is blind faith. That and blind trust in robed pitchmen who claim to somehow conveniently have all the right answers to the biggest questions mankind faces. Here, follow these ancient superstitious rules and I promise you won't actually die. I promise you will live joyously in heaven for eternity with all the hairy virgins you can handle..... if you just take time to brutally murder some innocents on your way out the door....oh..... but remember you still won't be let in to paradise if you dare use toilet paper or sip wine. A tip though, it really helps your chances if you kill everyone who we can't convince to believe our exact brand of crazy shit, even if it's other Muslims.
How friggin' weak, stupid and devoid of critical thinking must someone be to buy into this ancient, barbaric insanity? Imams sure don't seem to have much trouble finding them though.
Actually it is widely agreed that something about the human condition requires a belief system.
The Bolsheviks understood this and failed to substitute their politics for religion.
The Frankfurt School deliberately targeted nuclear families, education and Christianity.....throughout the west not just America.
Nature abhors a vacuum and the socialists found themselves out hustled by the muzzies. Proselytizing in prisons allows them to recruit the elements they need.
The hack was only noticed when the viewer ratings for TV5Mondo actually increased.
"The Frankfurt School deliberately targeted nuclear families, education and Christianity.....throughout the west not just America."
Oh boy, do you ever have that right. And at the moment they are the clear winners in the west. See "making cakes, floral arrangements, law graduates denied bar accreditation", and the list goes on and on, especially lately. The Frankfurters smell total victory.
The Frankfurters took over by stealth, but now are confounded by how to deal with a threat as big as it was and is openly stating its views to take over the world. ISIS will not roll over for the Frankfurters like conservatives did.
That's probably what Hillary's home office looks like. Minus the black guy.
ISIS hack? I figured ISIS TV was part of basic French cable?
"Bin Laden is dead..."
I'm thinking its time our most prominent French citizen (apologies to M. Dion) and leader of Canada's Official Opposition clarify his up to date views on Bin Laden's 'apparent' demise at the hands of the evil Americans. Last I heard from Angry Tom, he seemed to have doubts as to the real possibility Bin Laden was swimming with the fishes. A clarification is in order I say. Bob Fife is surely on the case.