TV channels getting "hacked" seems like it's going to be more of a thing in the future.
A couple of years ago the French TV channel TV5Monde (a channel aimed at the world, and offering French news, documentaries and dramas), was hacked in what was almost certainly a state sponsored attack. And TV networks, especially in news environments, are run from big complicated playout systems where story packages are ingested and then played back out. Nobody is rushing around with big tapes like they're on Broadcast News anymore. So it's not hard to conceive that if someone took control of that system, they could massively disrupt a provider's output. I suspect that cyber security teams in networks around the globe will be looking very closely at what happened at Nine and making sure they're locked down as much as possible. On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 4:51 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Nine Network, one of the two commercial networks in Australia that > dominate the ratings in that country, suffered a weekend cyberattack that > affected their news and current affairs departments and wreaked havoc on > live programming on Sunday (including their morning show "Today") and the > news department's web site: > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/australias-channel-nine-suffers-cyber-attack-disruption-to-live-broadcasts > > Nine says that it may take weeks for its news operations to return to > normal. Besides "Today" and the flagship 6 p.m. regional newscasts, the > net's best-known news/current affairs product includes the nightly tabmag > "A Current Affair" (inspiration for the American series of the 80s) and > their version of "60 Minutes," which has stayed on the air despite > ViacomCBS (owners of competing Network 10) only renewing the title and > format rights and not the rights to use stories from the American version. > > Some believe that the Chinese government may be involved in the hack--the > two counties have not been on speaking terms as of late. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDgKOounOVUzqETn-fki9hYE_VnPTdYq4aFDZe7LngJ6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
