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		rasz_pl on Oct 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by hackers "The attackers used seven different points of entry. Not all of them were part of TV5Monde or in France. In one case, a company based in the Netherlands was targeted because it supplied the remote controlled cameras used in TV5's studios." = cameras with a backdoo^^^^cloud integration/permanently connected to manufacturers server.

qb45 on Oct 11, 2016 [–]

That's actually quite ironic. Selling some insecure hardware not only exposed their clients, but also lured hackers to their own systems.

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