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first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter...is Google next? Can you even fathom Google getting hacked.

by vaksel 17y ago

seldo 17y ago
To be fair, it's not clear how hard it is to hack twitter. The site falls over all the time all by itself. Granted, they briefly managed to serve some content as twitter, so it does look like a genuine hack rather than merely a DDoS or something. [edit] TechCrunch is reporting it's a DNS redirection attack, so their machines were probably never compromised (your password is safe). It also probably means the site will not be back up for a while, as it will take time for the DNS to propagate everywhere even after they fix it. [edit 2] ...aaaand it came back up 3 seconds later.
- rglullis 17y ago
  I don't think we can claim that "our passwords are safe". What about twitter clients that store your password to fetch your tweets automatically? Wouldn't they be posting your account password to http://twitter.com http://twitter.com, or twitter only uses HTTPS? If there is any way to login using standard HTTP, the same server that is used to deface the website can be collecting tons of user credentials. And even if twitter uses only HTTPS, what's the policy of twitter clients in regard to bad certificates?
mahmud 17y ago
first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter Who is "they"? the drones were hacked by Taliban, twitter by the Iranian Cyber Army.
- blantonl 17y ago
  The Drones were not "hacked" - they were listened to.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    Go ahead and descramble your cable signal, you will be charged with "hacking". I was just going by the sensationalist label of the act given to it by law-enforcement, media and the political "establishment". Similar dilution of the term occurs here on a daily basis.
    - btilly 17y ago
      The drone signals were not scrambled. So it seems to me that you're diluting the term too far.
- moron4hire 17y ago
  Actually, the current understanding is that the drones were hacked by insurgents specifically funded by the Iranians, so... I don't even like the idea of microblogging, so to me this is about as big of news as hearing that the IRA managed to bomb a backyard chicken coop. ed: didn't mean hacked, I know it was just a matter of listening to the data feed, not actually doing anything to the drone.

first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter...is Google next? Can you even fathom Google getting hacked.

by vaksel 17y ago

first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter...is Google next? Can you even fathom Google getting hacked.

seldo 17y ago

To be fair, it's not clear how hard it is to hack twitter. The site falls over all the time all by itself. Granted, they briefly managed to serve some content as twitter, so it does look like a genuine hack rather than merely a DDoS or something. [edit] TechCrunch is reporting it's a DNS redirection attack, so their machines were probably never compromised (your password is safe). It also probably means the site will not be back up for a while, as it will take time for the DNS to propagate everywhere even after they fix it. [edit 2] ...aaaand it came back up 3 seconds later.

rglullis 17y ago
I don't think we can claim that "our passwords are safe". What about twitter clients that store your password to fetch your tweets automatically? Wouldn't they be posting your account password to http://twitter.com http://twitter.com, or twitter only uses HTTPS? If there is any way to login using standard HTTP, the same server that is used to deface the website can be collecting tons of user credentials. And even if twitter uses only HTTPS, what's the policy of twitter clients in regard to bad certificates?

mahmud 17y ago

first they hacked our drones, now they hacked twitter Who is "they"? the drones were hacked by Taliban, twitter by the Iranian Cyber Army.

blantonl 17y ago
The Drones were not "hacked" - they were listened to.
- mahmud 17y ago
  Go ahead and descramble your cable signal, you will be charged with "hacking". I was just going by the sensationalist label of the act given to it by law-enforcement, media and the political "establishment". Similar dilution of the term occurs here on a daily basis.
  - btilly 17y ago
    The drone signals were not scrambled. So it seems to me that you're diluting the term too far.
moron4hire 17y ago
Actually, the current understanding is that the drones were hacked by insurgents specifically funded by the Iranians, so... I don't even like the idea of microblogging, so to me this is about as big of news as hearing that the IRA managed to bomb a backyard chicken coop. ed: didn't mean hacked, I know it was just a matter of listening to the data feed, not actually doing anything to the drone.