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.
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.
Does that game have swords yet? Last time I played, not all classes were there.
Not just Elon's account, shut the whole site down!
...we need a hack to prove that?
I'm still at a loss for words thinking that any real human people joined truth social. We really failed as a species...
Fascists arent people. Antifa osint people joined to watch.
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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Lol. Lmao, even
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.
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
When my parents kicked me out, the number of times o got to sleep inside because i could convince people i was the county password inspector was more than zero. It's hacking.
Wrench? No. But an old colleague informs me that the version done with a machete does count as hacking. I concur.
Those are both way more useful than exploiting a lazy coder's fuckup, renaming 'house of many backdoors' to 'that package everyone uses in everything' on github, or some fancy math shit.
Your laws are nonsense bullshit, they're just excuses for power and I'd appreciate you not defiling language fof the rest of us to justify them.
Those are both way more useful than exploiting a lazy coder’s fuckup
I never said social engineering, physical breaching, exerting force on people, and other ways of compromising systems weren't useful. They just aren't hacking to me, otherwise the term is too broad to be very useful.
You're free to come up with your own definition, I was asked to define it and that's my best shot for now.
I think a better definition would be "achieve something in an unintended or uncommon way". Fits the bill on what generally passes in the tech community as a "hack" while also covering some normal life stuff.
Getting a cheaper flight booked by using a IP address assigned to a different geographical location? Sure I'd call that a life hack. Getting a cheaper flight by booking a late night, early morning flight? No, those are deliberately cheaper
Also re: your other comment about not making a reply at all, sometimes for people like us it's just better to not get into internet fights over semantics (no matter how much fun they can be)
Your definition is probably better. I can very much vibe with that.
Mitnick mostly social engineered. Most of the big famous attacks at least involved a component of that.
Oh man.
My comment was intended to imply that the term "hacking" defies definition because it has been grossly overused and misconstrued over many decades.
Sure you might be able to convey what it means to you but of course it means different things to everyone else, with each definition being equally appropriate.
Er go, any discussion is one of semantics.
You know my first instinct wast to reply with: "No."
Maybe I should have stuck with that. I had a feeling this would lead nowhere.
I had a feeling this would lead nowhere.
precisely the point I was trying to make.
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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.
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It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
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Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?
Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.
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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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