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2018-04-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syrian officer: Israel-US cyberattack triggered missile defenses

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 "..Russian experts were brought in.."

Kaspersky, no doubt. I can't believe some people still use them for PC "security".

Posted by Shaling Angeresing2962 2018-04-17 10:07|| 2018-04-17 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 ...or PAK? ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-17 10:15|| 2018-04-17 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 simple solution

execute all the air defense operators and replace them

rinse and repeat

Posted by lord garth 2018-04-17 10:17|| 2018-04-17 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey Ahmad, it it was an Israeli attack you wouldn't even know it happened until long after the explosions.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-17 10:39|| 2018-04-17 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 So, in other words, the missile defenses were activated and all missiles launched. AFTER the radars indicated 100% interception, everyone from Damascus to Moscow started patting themselves on the back.

THEN the REAL attack commenced.

Posted by Ptah 2018-04-17 11:21|| 2018-04-17 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 So, in other words, the missile defenses were activated and all missiles launched. AFTER the radars indicated 100% interception, everyone from Damascus to Moscow started patting themselves on the back.

THEN the REAL attack commenced.

Posted by Ptah 2018-04-17 11:21|| 2018-04-17 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Did it happen twice?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-17 11:24|| 2018-04-17 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Makes me more and more confident that the Network-Centric Theory in general, and the F-35 in particular, is the Wave of the Future! (/sarc)
Not!

Posted by magpie 2018-04-17 12:29|| 2018-04-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 A false alarm caused by a "joint electronic operation" carried out by Israel and the US led to the firing of air defenses missile

From what I've read (and bearing in mind I don't know squat about this), the last time the Juice waxed a nuke plant, they were able to 'inject' signals into the air defense radars that created the appearance of a bajillion attackers. In response, the radars were shut down (or rebooted if they were running Windows) This is a clever step up from 'normal' electronic countermeasures that just blast a lot of noise at the radars and create a big fuzzball on the screen to hide the attack.

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-17 12:38|| 2018-04-17 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 In the old fashioned way, when everybody's screen turns to fuzz, you run outside and start shooting up in the air just in case.
With the new one, you call the IT guy and go get a cup of coffee.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-04-17 17:09|| 2018-04-17 17:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Could have been a Cyber attack but also sounds like something like an AWAC or something sending false echos on the radar frequency.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-17 17:13|| 2018-04-17 17:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah the deadly radar holograms were projected. (It seems possible if unlikely.)

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-17 17:16|| 2018-04-17 17:16|| Front Page Top

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