After hackerscollectief Anonymous a few weeks ago an attack was to perform on Dutch radio stations, the NPO precautions taken. The name of the operation was consistent with a 3FM program.
Anonymous published on 22 July a video showing the loose computer hacker group announced on Friday 29 July attack on major radio stations. Although the nature of the attack is not in detail described, hintten the creators of the video that the attack would take place via mail, phone and fax.
The operation had the name Freaknight. Because 3FM a program with the same name, took the Dutch Public Broadcaster the necessary precautions. Although these measures for all broadcasters golden, the measures were mainly aimed at the Dutch radio station 3FM. This writes Nu.nl Sunday, based on an internal mail from the NPO.
In the mail is a number of scenarios for the attack explained, including a possible ddos-attack or an attack on the phone lines. Out of precaution, additional backups of the various servers and offline secured. “If something can go wrong, it can back-up directly connected and started. The broadcast may include all music and design continue”, writes Rohan te Wierik, manager at 3FM radio, in the mail.
Also, the systems additional monitored and was for 3FM, an alternate stream set up. In addition, there was the possibility of the site of 3FM static. Although there against a goedopgezette ddos has little to do, this would be the load to have something to reduce.
Anonymous came earlier this week in the news after the United States, for 10GB of data was stolen from some of the dozens of websites of local police stations. This could include confidential emails, police reports and other sensitive data are captured.