• Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
  • @nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other

    • ByteOnBikes
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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.

    • @freeman@feddit.org
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      Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster

      Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade

      If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.

      • @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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        They didn’t hack anything. Just your plain old DDoS attack which took the service offline for a while, nothing was (at least based on what I read) actually hacked (or cracked as old-school folks like me would like it to be called) or stolen.

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)
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    Iran pls hack Elon Musk’s Twitter account and post “I’m a mean old Nazi who sucks ass at Path of Exile 2”

    • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      215 days ago

      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.

  • @KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world
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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”.

    • Uninvited Guest
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      In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato or tomato.

    • Mearuu
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      In order to launch a meaningful DDoS there must be thousands of compromised machines to use. I would absolutely say compromising such a large amount of machines is hacking.

      • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        116 days ago

        A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

        So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

      • @KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world
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        116 days ago

        It’s absolutely hacking those computer, just not the site. I just don’t want to get overly excited for something that doesn’t have much meat to it.

  • @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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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…

      • @saruwatarikooji@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • @squaresinger@lemmy.world
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          114 days ago

          Sea cables are probably the most vulnerable point of the internet. There are comparatively few of them (on the order of a few hundreds), they are long, and most of their length is not guarded at all. The only reason I can think of, why nobody has targeted them at large is that it would also cut of the attacker.

        • setVeryLoud(true);
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          116 days ago

          “accidentally” leaving an anchor dragging across an intercontinental internet cable would do it

        • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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          216 days ago

          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.

          • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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            116 days ago

            Yeah it will indiscriminately hurt Iranians and Americans and not our rulers. We were both already suffering under our leaders before the American government decided to go to war with Iran.

            I may need to go reread Jingo…

          • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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            Innocent Americans don’t wear the US fascist army uniform.
            I will spit on their grave.

            So let the downvoting, bootlicking and whitewashing begin.
            You’ll have to be creative, not this tired garbage:

              • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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                116 days ago

                “I didn’t personally bomb weddings or hospitals, I only made a cog for the missile” doesn’t excuse them.
                So yes, they can all go to hell

        • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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          116 days ago

          Iran is known for its barbaric treatment of women who refuse the forced muslim dress code. They are a equally corrupt government. No good people involved at the upper levels. SSDD.

          • fantoozie
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            216 days ago

            Yeah good thing the US respects women’s autonomy and isn’t being strangled by a fundamentalist religious movement that wants to force women to be nothing more than incubators, maids, and fuck toys…😒

            • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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              116 days ago

              Most of us do respect womens autonomy. I know I taught my daughter that. The loud mouth weaklings don’t. They hate that women don’t have to spread on command.

              • fantoozie
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                016 days ago

                I couldnt give a single flying fuck if “most of you” are such good people that you’d willingly live in a militant feminist matriarchy; the fact is our enemy is not Iran or it’s people and you’re here patting yourself on the ass for having the literal minimum level of decency expected of a father

              • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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                Iran has more FEMALE engineers than the US and less of it’s population in jail.
                Iran’s healthcare has been rated excellent by UNICEF.
                I could continue, but facts can’t win from the propaganda machine online.
                So I’m just gonna laugh make fun of it.

                • @Sl00k@programming.dev
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                  -116 days ago

                  The freedom of both women and the general public is not solely dictated by healthcare and the ability to attain higher education.

                  Does a free society cut off country wide access to the external internet?

                  Iran is actively lying to its citizens saying they destroyed the US base in Qatar and there was minimal damage to Iranian nuclear facilities. Both outright lies. This is not a free golden society.

                  How many women are persecuted from laws around the head dressing and other clothing related issues.

                  Boiling womens rights down to they can become an engineer and have good healthcare is laughably pathetic and on the verge of being a conservative talking point I would hear on fox news in justification for stripping away more rights. Pinning the struggle of US women against Iranian women is an incredibly pathetic mindset that only fosters negativity.

              • fantoozie
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                016 days ago

                Different doesn’t necessarily equate to worse. The IR does oppress women, without a doubt; but American society exploits young women’s sexuality for financial gain, psychologically manipulates them into prohibitive gender norms that are impossible to achieve without vast amounts of wealth and privilege, and then tells them the most important thing they can aspire to be is mother to a man’s offspring.

                In short, you, your society, and your government are not as different-and clearly not any better-from any other in the world.

                • @Sl00k@programming.dev
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                  -116 days ago

                  A lot of this comment hinges on your belief that US women are not intelligent enough to to understand that exploitation and manipulation. Knowledge has progressed a lot in the last 20 years. Look at the under 18 and 20-24 age groups here

                  There are much better examples of the subjugation of women in the US right now than to pin the societal oppression on US’ fostering of an anti intellectual society.

            • @pogmommy@lemmy.ml
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              Solid-State Disk Drive, it’s a regular hard drive with the platters hot-glued to stay still

              • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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                That’s right. The platters are heavy, and the reader head is light, so we just whip the reader head around at 7200rpm

  • Fred
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    Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!

    • Sinthesis
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      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.

      • @ours@lemmy.world
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        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.

    • Destide
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      114 days ago

      Hacking isn’t hacking it’s usually cracking

      • ObjectivityIncarnate
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        316 days ago

        Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.

        • pachrist
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          I mean, I know JK Rowling sucks, and it’s been a long time since the first Harry Potter movie came out, but it was definitely a component and precursor to Hagrid beating the shit out of that door.

        • @theherk@lemmy.world
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          016 days ago

          Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.

          Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.

          • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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            I haven’t heard of a firewall failing open when overwhelmed yet. Usually quite the opposite, a flood disables access to more than just the targeted device, when the state table overflows.

            But maybe there is a different mechanism I’m not aware of. How would the DDoS change the properties of ingress?

            • @theherk@lemmy.world
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              By denying access to resources in a primary region, one might force traffic to an alternate infrastructure with a different configuration. Or maybe by overwhelming hosts that distribute BGP configurations. By denying access to resources, sometimes you can be routed to resources with different security postures or different monitoring and alerting, thus not raising alarms. But these are just contrived examples.

              Compromising devices is a wide field with many different tools and ideas, some of which are a bit off the wall and nearly all unexpected, necessarily.

      • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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        -215 days ago

        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

        • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          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.

        • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          -215 days ago

          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.

          • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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            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.

            • @MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world
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              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)

  • @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    116 days ago

    Thankfully only DDos. Truth Social is Mastodon so a security flaw could have been a real problem.

    • @Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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      116 days ago

      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$$$”

  • @blattrules@lemmy.world
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    016 days ago

    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.

    • @ramble81@lemmy.zip
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      His administration says damage to Teslas equates to terrorism. I don’t think it would go how you’re thinking.

    • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @blattrules@lemmy.world
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        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.