Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
www.bleepingcomputer.com
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Seems like the Coup was orchistrated by kimy
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It's too bad we don't have details about the other company involved that they were targeting. Seems like the sort of thing that could rapidly escalated -- blinding all of your competitors birds on purpose. If those birds are in Geosynch, you don't even need to be in the country to do it -- just same longitude, approximately.
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anyone else remember low orbit ion cannon DDOSing? i guess life imitates art
edit: receivers. doy. reading comprehension is hard.
I assume in this case it's DDOSing the satellite,not the other way round?
the article isn't 100% clear, but this line suggested to me that they were being used to perform attacks themselves (although it also states "Allegedly, the functionality was needed to counter the attacks of a competing entity.")
Satellite receiver usually means a thingy for receiving satellite TV. Receiver means that it only receives signals but cannot transmit any.
I assume that these are internet enabled. Maybe just for updates, or maybe to also do streaming. So, I take it to mean that they do the normal internet DDOS thing on the side, in a way that has nothing to do with satellites.