• 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.
  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.

    • theherk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      16 hours ago

      Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.

      Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.

    • pachrist@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      14 hours ago

      I mean, I know JK Rowling sucks, and it’s been a long time since the first Harry Potter movie came out, but it was definitely a component and precursor to Hagrid beating the shit out of that door.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        13 hours ago

        To be fair, they had moved to an unsecure location that was a much softer target by that point. Can a DDOS force someone to move their services over to the equivalent of a century old, weather-beaten lighthouse in the middle of England?