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They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?

pavs 17y ago
Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way 1 month from now. Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. 48 hours is not a long time. Twitter gets hacked more often than this. They very well could be incompetent, but you are judging too soon.
- coderdude 17y ago
  You've made some good points there. I must admit I agree. I'm being too hasty with my judgment here.
- riffraff 17y ago
  >Twitter gets hacked more often than this. Really? I can remember only twice, in a bout a year, although admittedly I was not paying much attention
- sid- 17y ago
  Well I dont know whether have lost any data, but a link on the main page is broken - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-case/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-ca...
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
  - oscardelben 17y ago
    techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks
- JoachimSchipper 17y ago
  > Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. Because, you know, restoring from a backup is the same as securing a site, right? And there's no way that a hacker could do worse things? Because infecting some visitors or something similar wouldn't hurt their reputation? Sorry for the outburst, but this happens way too often.

pavs 17y ago

Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way 1 month from now. Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. 48 hours is not a long time. Twitter gets hacked more often than this. They very well could be incompetent, but you are judging too soon.

coderdude 17y ago
You've made some good points there. I must admit I agree. I'm being too hasty with my judgment here.
riffraff 17y ago
>Twitter gets hacked more often than this. Really? I can remember only twice, in a bout a year, although admittedly I was not paying much attention
sid- 17y ago
Well I dont know whether have lost any data, but a link on the main page is broken - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-case/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-ca...
boundlessdreamz 17y ago
twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
- oscardelben 17y ago
  techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks
JoachimSchipper 17y ago
> Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. Because, you know, restoring from a backup is the same as securing a site, right? And there's no way that a hacker could do worse things? Because infecting some visitors or something similar wouldn't hurt their reputation? Sorry for the outburst, but this happens way too often.