they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other
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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"
Not just Elon's account, shut the whole site down!
...we need a hack to prove that?
Do twitter next.
Fuck it, take down the entire internet
It's been tried. A huge percentage of the internet runs on Amazon web services... And a massive ddos attack on that barely bumped it beyond the level of holiday shopping.
To get anywhere on "taking down the internet" they'd probably have to physically take out many sites across the globe.
You say this like the hour all major SAAS went down 2 weeks ago was nothing. MILLIONS lost in business hours is not nothing.
"accidentally" leaving an anchor dragging across an intercontinental internet cable would do it
Russia is working on it just support Russia. /s
Lol. Lmao, even
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.
Annoyingly, already registered
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DDoS is not hacking
Define hacking.
I'd start with the following, and refine if necessary:
"Gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer resource by technical means."
- Port scanning --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained*
- Using default passwords that weren't changed --> Not hacking because the resource wasn't protected*
- Sending spam --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained
- Beating the admin with a wrench until he tells you the key --> Not hacking because it's not by technical means.
- Accessing teacher SSN's published on the state website in the HTML --> Not hacking because the resource wasn't protected, and on the contrary was actively published**
- Distributed denial of service attack --> Not hacking because there isn't any access to resources gained
* Those first two actually happened in 2001 here in Switzerland when the WEF visitors list was on a database server with default password, they had to let a guy (David S.) go free
** The governor and his idiot troupe eventually stopped their grandstanding and didn't file charges against Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, luckily
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Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?
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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It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
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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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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$$$"
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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.
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