Radio broadcasts are hacked for 90 minutes and are taken over and programs of podcasts that are completely unrelated are broadcasted

BySean Davis

Along with the spread of the Internet and smart phones, not only traditional radio broadcastingInternet radioThe program is also actively being broadcast. Meanwhile, an American regional radio station that also carries Internet distribution has suffered hacking damage, and there has been an incident that a podcast program that is not related at all is broadcasted for 90 minutes.

Statement on today's morning broadcast - LIFT 106
http://alwaysmountaintime.com/kift/articles/statement-todays-morning-broadcast/


District radio station in Colorado state "KIFTBroadcasting lineSTLI am connected to the Internet, but the line was hacked by someone early in the morning on April 5th local time. Over the course of about 90 minutes, there is no relation with KIFT's regular program "FurCast"The podcast program called KIFT was broadcasted. FurCast animates an animal "Farley FandomIt is a podcast service that delivers comedy programs of the genre called "Game".

KIFT's management team could not immediately recover the control of the STL, the technician went to the transmitter base and finally reprogrammed the system at the site and finally he got fixed. KIFT seems to be unknown why hacking damage has occurred because STL uses an undocumented system of industry standards. KIFT reviews the security of the system to prevent recurrence and calls other local radio stations "to pay attention to broadcasting line hacking", but in addition to KIFT, Texas and Denver's It is clear that local radio stations are suffering similar hacking damage as well.

Furcast denies involvement in hacking and represents a posture to cooperate fully with incident investigation by law enforcement agencies.

Malicious Syndication Incident | FurCast
https://furcast.fm/2016/04/malicious-syndication-press-release/

According to the investigation after hacking occurred, the hacker "ShodanIt is considered to be using a tool called "the tool. Shodan is a search engine that can find a terminal connected to the Internet, and is an audio equipment manufacturer'sBarixIt is speculated that the database was built in the radio equipment made, and hacked every terminal and distributed Furcast's program. The Broadcasters Association of Michigan states that for a radio station using Barix, a report saying "Password should be set to the upper limit of 24 letters and hide Internet access information to the terminal"Announcementdoing.

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