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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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Iran is kinda goated for this not gonna lie!
Lmfao
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.
May just be the only thing that saves this country. Fewer people on social media is good for society at this point.
I’ll bet Donakd Trump is very upset!
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 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.
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.
Or they just found a buffer overflow bug on their border router/firewall. I can’t imagine Truth Social has a keen network engineering team keeping up to patching and vulnerabilities.
Doesn’t Truth Social run a super old custom modded version of Lemmy? That thing must have a ton of vulnerabilities.
It uses Mastodon (ActivityPub disabled), and Soapbox-FE.
A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.
So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.
These DDOS for hire services make use of hacked machines as botnets to perform the DDOS attacks.
So while the people paying for the service didn’t hack anything, the people performing the DDOS certainly did.
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?
In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
It’s pronounced tomato
Potato potato
You can keep your nasty chips
Social Engineering is hacking cmv.
No, because I agree.
You can argue it’s a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.
But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.
That’s cracking, not hacking. If you’re going to be pedantic, be correct.
However you want to phrase it, they’re very different problems with different solutions.
“Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house” is meaningfully distinct from “Someone stole my keys”.
That’s called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
PEBKAC
It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.
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$$$”
Never saw security flaw now as a real problem. You just have to live with the fact that there is one. And you will suffer when it’s used. Security flaw later is a real problem.
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.
I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point…
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.
Surely Trump could have ignored them, as an official act of course.
I bet it’s the US.
They’re already starting the 💀Iranian sleeper cell terrorists!!!😱 scaremongering in the press.
These kinds of reports in the media are the first step in a known pattern of priming and nudging to rally up the public for another war.And nothing of value was lost.
Value gained, actually.
Less AI generated garbage.
Things of negative value were lost :D
It feels weird to be in support of the goals of an Iranian hacker group.
Not really. Most people around the world are pretty much in the same boat. The “leaders” of governments try to propagandize differences, but everyone is living the same shitty existence. Elites vs poors across the globe. Occasionally you get groups that are extremely radical, but it’s not specific really to any country (We see a lot of out of the ME and Africa mostly due to prolonged Colonial abuse, admittedly.)
“Hacker group”.
What a joke. Any kid with a credit card can unleash a ddos attack on a website.
An irrelevant website none the less. If that pile of shit goes down then the entire world benefits.
Its like watching two shitty people have an argument.
What did Iran do? Seems like all the shitty is on one side.
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.
While there are religious extremists in Iran, their level of influence on Iranian culture is not anywhere near what you’re saying. You’re just repeating western propaganda.
They did have a controversial new dress code law that was supposed to go into effect at the end of last year, but it was blocked for being to extreme and vague.
However, my state just forced a brain dead woman to incubate a baby against the family’s will. So I’m inclined to agree with those saying the religious extremists exercise greater control in the US than Iran, and by your standards that means they should bomb us. Because I guess you think killing people is equal to freeing them.
Yeah the US/hasbara propaganda tools are out in full force.
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You are stretching that one out. I don’t support Israel any more than I support Iran. They are both trash.
You’re repeating Israeli lies. So you’re either surreptitiously supporting Israel, or you’re serving as a useful idiot.
LOL
The literal hasbara operative excuse to excuse them for genociding those misanthrophic barbarian Palestinians.
Really, you’re all so boring and unimaginative.
Must be tiring defending the many many warcrimes from USSA/pissrahell.
Glad you’re getting youe ass kicked and turning into Gaza yourself, it warms my heart.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…😒
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.
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
Both of you are right but there’s definitely levels to how much worse it is in Iran
or Alabama
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.
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
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.
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.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.
Wait fr?
evangelical-christian-nationalists
SSDD? Same shit, different dictator - I like it
Solid-State Disk Drive, it’s a regular hard drive with the platters hot-glued to stay still
That’s right. The platters are heavy, and the reader head is light, so we just whip the reader head around at 7200rpm
So if the US killed those women, problem solved? I don’t get your logic.
You try using logic. I didn’t say anything of the sort. You came up with that yourself.
It would get even worse if the regime fall. Just look at iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria
“let them fight.”
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.
He would have to even think about them to do that. I doubt the ground level costs of his actions and choices ever enter his mind in any real way.
Oh he thinks of them. He thinks of them as trash.
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…
What innocent Americans are you talking about? If trade ships are attacked, maybe. If it’s military personnel, none of them are innocent as they are still “following orders”.
So everyone of us is guilty. Fuck you!
Don’t know why do you say “everyone”, I certainly didn’t say that. But if you are in the military of a country that is invading other country and continue to be in the military then you are definitely not innocent(though transferring to a different location might be a compromise).
Tankie fucktoid alert
Problem?
How many innocent lives have been lost to US military action though out the world?
Collateral damage.
Talking about one thing but you want to talk about all the things.
They could revolt
They could sprout wings and fly to fairy land.
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:
So the entirety of all branches are all responsible equally. Got it
Its a pretty childish take. Somehow my statement just wasn’t good enough. Not enough black and white. Too much grey.
“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
Do twitter next.
Fuck it, take down the entire internet
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.
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.
You say this like the hour all major SAAS went down 2 weeks ago was nothing. MILLIONS lost in business hours is not nothing.
Who gives a fuck about the travails of corporations on the internet?
The entire capitalist world only cares about that.
Feeling concern for the welfare of a corporation is a lot like caring for a lion or some other large predator. You don’t want to see it suffer but you know that it could turn on you at any moment, when it’s convenient for them.
Not even sure why/were you’re even taking this. They said a major outage was no worse than a website being overwhelmed by shoppers. I pointed out it’s in fact waaayyy worse. I don’t give a fuck about the corporations lost time.
“accidentally” leaving an anchor dragging across an intercontinental internet cable would do it
Russia is working on it just support Russia. /s
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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.
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
Like Wikipedia?
Really you should have it direct to a clone of the site, but with fake accounts pushing whatever agenda you want.
Meat spin?
They said something they hate.
…with a jump scare?
Fascists arent people. Antifa osint people joined to watch.
I’m thinking it might have some comedic value and if you’re trying to beat the stock market…
Andrew Tated
Andrew Tate’s site was based on some OSS software that they didn’t credit (in violation of the license) and was an old version with known vulnerabilities. Which is why it got hacked.
I don’t know if Truth Social is in the same boat, but it’s possible. I think I heard it’s just Mastodon with federation turned off? Or am I thinking of some other crappy alt-right site?
