Twitter Hackage - Page 1
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author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 10:35:25 pm
content: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromisedhttps://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1283518217839935489?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet*sigh*Remember the good old days when some one would grab a front page and replace it with a topless photo of a movie star and call to bring back Mr. Belvedere?

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2020, 11:42:45 pm
content: "Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 12:51:01 am
content: Quote from: eti on July 15, 2020, 11:42:45 pmStupid? Who the F are you, Miss Beavers, my eighth grade English teacher? No, I meant hackage and that is why I wrote hackage. If I meant hacked, I would have written hacked and not hackage.Here is a nice grade school level sitehttps://www.ck12.org/spelling/the-suffix-age/lesson/suffix-age/for you to study that has some examples and practice lists for you, showing how a verb + age = a noun. You can do this with nouns also, like tonnage.Before you declare the use of some words as stupid, you might also consider evaluating your own word usage a little more precisely. How could one append an (not a), "..age" to an action, as differentiated from appending it to a word. To do so is metaphysically absurd. When you walk down the street, can you append "...age" to the action of walking down the street? Perhaps, you are confused and mean append an, "...age" suffix to a noun or a verb.Just as you think what I wrote is stupid, I think what you wrote was the action of a retardate (and yes, that is the correct way of saying it, not retard). Maybe you could start a thread on word rants. I will be happy to contribute because the twatage that you wrote is rant-worthy.Relax, take it easy, be nice, watch some Mr. Belvedere reruns

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 06:07:16 am
content: The first point of eti's being wrong doesn't preclude the other from being spot onIn my days, we simply called it a hack

author: lowimpedance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 06:41:27 am
content: After another dull day at the office, that made it much better.............just what theDrordered !

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 08:33:45 am
content: Seems somebody gained access to the internal admin panelhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezosQuoteHow much do you think it would take to bribe a Facebook employee to gain access to private pics of a random user? Asking for a friend

author: Syntax Error
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 09:14:17 am
content: As Agatha Christie might have said, the murderer is here in the drawing room. Such an inside job.Not sure what their motivation was, but as most accounts belong to the "liberal elite", some s*** stirring is in progress.Was it the Russian prince, the Chinese butler, the fat North Korean boy king, or the mysterious Persian princess... pick your Cluedo geo poltical suspect now.Or just follow the crypto.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 10:06:09 am
content: The hacker managed to get $115k in Bitcoin so far.Hacking prominent accounts, but leaving Trump alone. I'm guessing that the hacker didn't want the Secret Service involved.But imagine for one moment, the hacker could get a tweet on Trump's account: "Nuclear missiles launched from China towards USA. Counter-attack launched. Missiles inbound. Immediately seek shelter, abandon cities." Then getting other prominent accounts to retweet or post along those lines.The chaos from just that staying up for an hour could be immense.

author: exe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 10:40:20 am
content: Oh, Brits arguing with Yankees over the language, that's gonna be fun

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 10:45:21 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on July 16, 2020, 10:06:09 amThat would be a quality prankAnd one that they deserve for taking anything posted on Twitter seriously. I would change China to North Korea, though.I have an alternative theory, too, wonder what you folks think about it. The hack resulted in Twitter blocking all blue checkmarks until internal investigation is completed (that's what they say), so perhaps Bitcoin is just a cover and it was an insider job to get Trump blocked for a few days?

author: Syntax Error
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 10:53:47 am
content: At face value, this would seem to have a neocon motivation. Embarras the liberal twitterarty. Involving Obama would mandate the Secret Service though?As for those payments? The Feds will be watching the blockchain. And you can track the culprits BTC address transactions too onhttps://btc.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 12:07:42 pm
content: Quote from: magic on July 16, 2020, 08:33:45 amYou really think there is aMASTERerminternal admin panel- something perhaps inspired by the Wizard of Oz. "Now dis here is da internal admin panel - dont touch nun of dem buttons".They always come up with some largely BS explanation in the hope people will just get over it quickly.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2020, 01:01:34 pm
content: Well, they don't flat-out deny that those screenshots are genuine, just ban people for posting themMaybe not "the panel" but "a panel", but they clearly must have internal UIs for customer support,cenmoderators etc.Fun fact: you have no idea how many employees of your favorite social network have how much access to your account.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 03:11:05 pm
content: ...and now the all-too-common followup saying that it was much worse than originally thought....and with no real information.Twitter's massive hack could be even worse than it seemshttps://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/tech/twitter-hack-security-analysis/index.html"It blamed a "coordinated social engineering attack" against some of its employees who had access to "internal systems and tools"In a week or two, buried somewhere outside of the mainstream media will be some more information; drip, drip, drip,. Then the Congressional inquiries. How many times do we seem to go through the same breach behavior?

author: RenThraysk
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 04:01:10 pm
content: "hackers breached employee Slack accounts and found credentials for the Twitter backend pinned inside a Slack channel"Passwords on virtual post-it notes, which are entrusted to a third party. What could possibly go wrong?!

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 04:03:43 pm
content: That's ridiculous.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 04:21:54 pm
content: Quote from: magic on July 16, 2020, 06:07:16 amIn my day, I remember a couple of people who pointed out that innocuous hackers are annoyed that they are lumped in with 'crackers' who attack and crack things, like Twitter.Of course I understand the problem with calling people crackers.Maybe we should call the people who attacked twitter what they are: terrorists.

author: RenThraysk
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 05:41:41 pm
content: They could be terrorists if there was a political motivation. But seems there was none atm.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 19, 2020, 05:58:39 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 19, 2020, 04:21:54 pmI'm familiar with this concept but it failed to gain tractionso muchthat I didn't even remember about it while writing that postThe only people legitimately called "crackers" are those making software cracks, sorry. I'm afraid that pwning websites is simply hacking.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 26, 2020, 10:32:15 pm
content: A few detailsspeculatingon what might have happened. How the initial compromise of a number of so-called admin accounts was accomplished is not not detailed.https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/tech/former-twitter-employees-sleuthing/index.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/tech/twitter-hack-remote-working-security-risks/index.html"Twitter said the breach was the result of a coordinated "social engineering" attack that targeted workers who had administrative privileges, with the aim of taking control of the accounts." translated from weasel-speak to English: We are either not saying or we have no freaking idea how they got so many admin passwords that had no two-factor authentication or any kind of sophisticated security.I was a little shocked to learn (if this was not speculation) that the admin accounts could disable two-factor authentication for user accounts as well as email address to send password reset instructions. That is, hack that and get a pw reset and you have it. Why do you need so many though? To keep it going for a few minutes? I don't know, but the initial reaction was to lock down accounts.BTW: I don't have a Twitter account.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2020, 07:48:22 pm
content: Ahhh the plot thickens.17 year old arrested for the hackagehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/twitter-hack-arrest.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageThese will be some court papers that I want to read.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2020, 09:14:32 pm
content: It doesn't make sense. Earlier on they said the hackage had to have been carried out by a long term employee of the company with a fair bit of infrastructure access.Edit: Fixage of spellage.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2020, 09:18:32 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 31, 2020, 09:14:32 pmYep. Now it s e e m s like a War Games kid just bought a bunch of passwords on the "dark web" and tried to get rich.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2020, 10:31:02 pm
content: These accounts may have been something they gave to political insiders, saying they would claim they were hackers and disavow any knowledge if they got caught.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2020, 12:25:54 am
content: Two more arrested:https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/tech/alleged-twitter-hacker-arrested/index.html

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 05:12:07 am
content: I appreciate your postage about this hackage.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 07:43:40 am
content: Quote from: ebastler on August 03, 2020, 05:12:07 amI appreciate your respondage to this threadage.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 08:39:50 am
content: It was hardly a hack. Some clown pinned the admin credentials in a Slack channel. The "hackers" were also stupid enough to use their actual driving license as ID on the cryptocurrency exchange website.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 09:01:51 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on August 03, 2020, 08:39:50 amWait a minute!I heard the newsreader on the radio today use the word "Mastermind"

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 09:11:46 am
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on August 03, 2020, 09:01:51 amThere's your first problem, listening to commercial radio. ;-)

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 09:32:53 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on August 03, 2020, 09:11:46 amI know. I should instead be reading twitter so I can be like informed and stuff.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 12:58:24 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on August 03, 2020, 07:43:40 amYour patronage for my trackage and reassemblage of the event is appreciated despite my umbrage at the forced wordage and slanguage.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 01:18:51 pm
content: As Twitter confirmed last week, 130 accounts were targeted in all. Attackers successfully tweeted from 45 of the accounts, accessed the direct messages of 36, and downloaded the Twitter data of seven. On Thursday evening, Twitter disclosed that attackers got in through social engineering, specifically through a phone spear-phishing attack, that targeted company employees. Court documents don’t provide much more detail than that and only allege that Clark’s actions date back to around May 3.https://www.wired.com/story/how-alleged-twitter-hackers-got-caught-bitcoin/Includes a criminal complaint.The lack of sophistication is alarming.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 01:21:35 pm
content: Quote from: DrG on August 03, 2020, 12:58:24 pmI'm only doing some presentage if only for some LOLage.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 01:24:45 pm
content: Quote from: DrG on August 03, 2020, 01:18:51 pmNote that while a single name is mentioned yet the plural reference 'attackers' is still shoved into the reporting.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2020, 02:11:32 pm
content: Makes for a better lookage for Twitter.Besides, journalists are underpaid drones, no time for such pedantry.... and currently in their last decade before being automated away

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 04, 2020, 10:08:13 pm
content: Quote from: DrG on July 16, 2020, 12:51:01 amHave some camomile tea and sedatives, I think you are more a worthy candidate, based on your VERY angry tone

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 04, 2020, 10:38:46 pm
content: Quote from: eti on August 04, 2020, 10:08:13 pmI thought the rantage was as fantastic responsage.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 05, 2020, 11:44:14 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on August 04, 2020, 10:38:46 pmLOL...(sorry, I mean LOLage - don't wanna get told off!)

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 12:05:37 am
content: Quote from: eti on August 05, 2020, 11:44:14 pmI suppose I should issue another slappage to you, since you immediately (about one hour) responded to the thread that I started, with nothing related to the topic and decided that what I did was "stupid". That is simple rudeness. Three posts now and you still have not posted anything even remotely related to the topic.I read your "I wanna be a ASM wizard" thread and, well, my conclusion is simply that you just don't interest me. Sorry pal.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 02:58:38 am
content: Why can't we all get alongage?

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 03:46:34 am
content: The Teenager Allegedly Behind the Twitter Hack and How He Did Ithttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-teenager-behind-the-twitter-hack-and-how-he-did-it-11596563449Tampa teenager accused in Twitter hack pleads not guiltyhttps://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tampa-teenager-accused-twitter-hack-pleads-guilty-72168491

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 11:15:43 pm
content: Quote from: DrG on August 06, 2020, 12:05:37 amOne doesn't usually engage with someone/thing which "doesn't interest" them, not sure why you replied. Happy word appending!

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 11:19:03 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on August 03, 2020, 08:39:50 amDON'T YOU GET IT?! It's FAR "cooler" than you see it to be, as it's append(age)d!Maybe this hackagepackagecould be thrown into the garbage?

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 11:21:38 pm
content: Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on August 06, 2020, 02:58:38 amYes, let's take advantageof our talents, and be nice

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 06, 2020, 11:53:19 pm
content: I don't know this fellow and I see that he has a lot of followers. I really enjoyed these two videos (note the dates as the first one was posted after the arrests, but the earlier one was spot on). I agree with much of what he said.