How did The Sports Network recover from the chinese defacement?

During an attack on CNN, the Sports Network got defaced because the Chinese hackers thought they were a part of CNN. But they were only a source for CNN.

So how did TSN recover from the attack? The Zdnet blog Zeroday has some information on it.

The company’s sports information and wire service was the priority when SportsNetwork brought its operations back up. Within a few hours, SportsNetwork, which primarily competes with Stats Inc., was serving its feeds to thousands of customers, which range from portals to most newspapers in the U.S. The data feeds (example right) represent the bulk of SportsNetwork’s revenue. The company’s site serves more as marketing showcase.

The lesson: Recover the revenue generating tools first. Sports Network, based in Hatboro, PA, has about 130 employees, a CTO and about 18 developers working on the site.

Will Sports Network change its security policies? Charles said on the security front his company had “all the things that everyone has” and noted that it’s obvious that his firm will have to do more. The challenge is that any change the company makes will have to be echoed by more than 1,000 customers.

Sports Network may speed up plans to add another layer of security, but is leaving the planning to his CTO. Whatever Sports Network does it’ll have to do so quickly. “The irony is we’re sending a gang of people to Beijing for the Olympics,” says Charles.

Read the full article.

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