they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other
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
source: https://xkcd.com/932/
(for those that want to read the alt-text)
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.
313 Team is an Arabic-interest hacker collective, aligned with Iran, Palestine and Iraq, they reportedly used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Truth Social.
The article seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it was updated?
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.
Annoyingly, already registered
It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
DDoS is not hacking
And nothing of value was lost.
Value gained, actually.
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!
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.
Do twitter next.
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.
Yeah agreed, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his business, but maybe that’s enough to divide the republicans in congress and they’ll start to rein him in. Still going to take a lot for them to develop the balls to stand up to him, but might be good for us if Iran just goes after his businesses.
His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.
With any other president I’d agree but this is Trump. A venal and petty man who wouldn’t think twice before using the country’s soldiers and even nuclear weapons to defend his sense of pride
Lol. Lmao, even
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.
Is It Mastodon?! For real? Does it have ActivityPub enabled and all of that?
It is a modified version of Mastodon, with a Soapbox front end. It does not have ActivityPub enabled and lacks a bunch of features.
The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license,[75] with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021.
Lol they actually complied with the license in the end, i didnt know that.
Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!
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We have a president who issues fascistic edicts from the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.
Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?
It seems like they just did us all a favor.
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