The BBC was the target of hack attacks earlier this month, according to comments made by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson in a wide-ranging speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday. There was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, and to disrupt BBC’s London telephone lines via multiple automatic calls, he said. There was also a sophisticated cyberattack on the news service. The BCC could not prove who was behind the source of the attacks, which were “nothing new,” Thompson said, but “we regard the coincidence of these different attacks as self-evidently suspicious.”
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Iran Likely Suspect in Cyberattacks Against BBC
Posted by: Erika Morphy March 15, 2012 08:52 AMThe BBC was the target of hack attacks earlier this month, according to comments made by BBC Director-General Mark Thompson in a wide-ranging speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday. There was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, and to disrupt BBC’s London telephone lines via multiple automatic calls, he said. There was also a sophisticated cyberattack on the news service. The BCC could not prove who was behind the source of the attacks, which were “nothing new,” Thompson said, but “we regard the coincidence of these different attacks as self-evidently suspicious.”