The author is director of technology for Frandsen Media, which includes Sandhill Media in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Cache Valley Media in Logan, Utah; and Canyon Media in St. George, Utah. Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images If you’ve been paying attention to the industry trades at all over the past decade or so, no doubt you’ve read about some major cybersecurity attacks on broadcast facilities. The attacks include everything from ransomware attacks to STL and airchain hijacks — audio and metadata. Following a breach, broadcasters often found themselves unable to access critical information, loss of the station’s audio or even worse, losing control of their signal entirely, replaced by obscenity-laden material on the air. A recent series of attacks that originated this past Labor Day weekend seemed to be targeted at inexpensive audio codecs manufactured by a specific company and exposed on public IP addresses. This is not a new development.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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