they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other
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I work in tech and I hate it when non-security people talk about it.
It's really painful to read about "a new hack that can affect billions of accounts" from a source, only to learn its some new social phishing method.
I mean it does depend on the extent of the hack. But usually taking down the website, they don't take the databases or anything
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Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper "hack".
In an age where "willfully giving out your account password" is called hacking, here I'd call it tomato or tomato.
Social Engineering is hacking cmv.
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I'm still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species...
Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social
Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump's base hates.
Really you should have it direct to a clone of the site, but with fake accounts pushing whatever agenda you want.
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Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!
Iran pls hack Elon Musk's Twitter account and post "I'm a mean old Nazi who sucks ass at Path of Exile 2"
No, post an unhinged rant where he doesn't say he's a nazi, but he talks in detail about how he sucks at video games phrased as bragging, then shits on gamers for noticing, and says a buncha shit like the 14 words and junk.
Not just Elon's account, shut the whole site down!
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DDoS is not hacking
The word "hack" is pre-internet. A "hack" journalist or a "hack job" is basically something unprofessional. It is movies that turned "hackers" into someone that gained access to the "mainframe". In the realm of computer systems, I would argue that a "hack" is doing anything the system was not intended/designed to do. A successful DoS or DDoS needs to find some component of the system that wasn't designed to handle the amount of traffic about to be sent to it.
There are protections for DDoS (iptables, fail2ban, Cloudflare and so on), you have to figure out a way around them, that's a hack.
The current tech-related usage was coined at MIT to mean working on a system. Funny that the oldest recorded source comes from MIT model railroad team.
Hacking isn't hacking it's usually cracking
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It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.
"let them fight."
The only problem is that felon 47 isn't going to fight. Innocent americans are going to get killed and that disgusting psychopath is going to spit on their graves.
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Lol. Lmao, even
Might be smart for Iran to just attack trump’s businesses as retribution for the bombings; if they attack the military, we’ll surely get pulled into another war, but just going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response and maybe will make republicans come around to the fact that he should have divested himself from his businesses when he became president.
going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response
More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he's absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.
Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.
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His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.
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Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.
nah it's a lazy fork so seeing how he chooses people (they're either cheap or friends of friends or both) "truth" can easily have a totally new security issue
maybe the server has a root password that's "trump454748$$$"
This is the saddest good news I've ever read.
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Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?
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