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  • 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.
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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they have to start differentiating a ddos attack from an actual breach. one is far more interesting than the other

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 18 points 23 hours ago

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!

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Amonverite@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Not just Elon's account, shut the whole site down!

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

...we need a hack to prove that?

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Does that game have swords yet? Last time I played, not all classes were there.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 112 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Someone should buy truth.social and make it redirect to something trump's base hates.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (8 children)
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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 282 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 44 points 2 days ago

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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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 97 points 2 days ago (19 children)
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago

Hacking isn't hacking it's usually cracking

[–] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 13 hours ago

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.

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 216 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper "hack".

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 127 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

Lol. Lmao, even

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 124 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (47 children)

Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 127 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 67 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 42 points 2 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$$$"

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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 97 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 24 points 2 days ago

Is this how we find out that Truth Social was running even harder on hopes and dreams than 4chan was?

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