Twitter Hackage

[DrG]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326200/elon-musk-bill-gates-twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-compromised

https://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?

[eti]

"Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

[DrG]

"Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

Stupid? 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 site https://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 

[magic]

The first point of eti's being wrong doesn't preclude the other from being spot on

In my days, we simply called it a hack

[lowimpedance]

 
 After another dull day at the office,  that made it much better.............just what the Dr ordered ! 

[magic]

Seems somebody gained access to the internal admin panel

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos

Twitter has been deleting some screenshots of the panel and has suspended users who have tweeted them, claiming that the tweets violate its rules.

How 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

[Syntax Error]

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.

[tom66]

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.

[exe]

Oh, Brits arguing with Yankees over the language, that's gonna be fun

[magic]

Nuclear missiles launched from China towards USA.  Counter-attack launched.  Missiles inbound.  Immediately seek shelter, abandon cities.

That would be a quality prank

And 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?

[Syntax Error]

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 on

https://btc.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

[DrG]

Seems somebody gained access to the internal admin panel

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos

Twitter has been deleting some screenshots of the panel and has suspended users who have tweeted them, claiming that the tweets violate its rules.

How 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

You really think there is a MASTER erm internal 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.

[magic]

Well, they don't flat-out deny that those screenshots are genuine, just ban people for posting them

Maybe 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.

[DrG]

...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 seems https://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?

[RenThraysk]

"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?! 

[tom66]

That's ridiculous.

[Ed.Kloonk]

The first point of eti's being wrong doesn't preclude the other from being spot on

In my days, we simply called it a hack

In 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.

[RenThraysk]

They could be terrorists if there was a political motivation. But seems there was none atm.

[magic]

In 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.

I'm familiar with this concept but it failed to gain traction so much that I didn't even remember about it while writing that post
The only people legitimately called "crackers" are those making software cracks, sorry. I'm afraid that pwning websites is simply hacking.

[DrG]

A few details speculating on 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.html
https://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.

[DrG]

Ahhh the plot thickens.

17 year old arrested for the hackage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/twitter-hack-arrest.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

These will be some court papers that I want to read.

[Ed.Kloonk]

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.

[DrG]

It's 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.

Yep. 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. 

[cdev]

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.

[DrG]

Two more arrested: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/tech/alleged-twitter-hacker-arrested/index.html

[ebastler]

I appreciate your postage about this hackage. 

[Ed.Kloonk]

I appreciate your postage about this hackage. 

I appreciate your respondage to this threadage.

[Halcyon]

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.

[Ed.Kloonk]

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.

Wait a minute!

I heard the newsreader on the radio today use the word "Mastermind"

[Halcyon]

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.

Wait a minute!

I heard the newsreader on the radio today use the word "Mastermind"

There's your first problem, listening to commercial radio. ;-)

[Ed.Kloonk]

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.

Wait a minute!

I heard the newsreader on the radio today use the word "Mastermind"

There's your first problem, listening to commercial radio. ;-)

I know. I should instead be reading twitter so I can be like informed and stuff.

[DrG]

I appreciate your postage about this hackage. 

I appreciate your respondage to this threadage.

Your patronage for my trackage and reassemblage of the event is appreciated despite my umbrage at the forced wordage and slanguage.

[DrG]

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.

[Ed.Kloonk]

I appreciate your postage about this hackage. 

I appreciate your respondage to this threadage.

Your patronage for my trackage and reassemblage of the event is appreciated despite my umbrage at the forced wordage and slanguage.

I'm only doing some presentage if only for some LOLage.

[Ed.Kloonk]

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.

Note that while a single name is mentioned yet the plural reference 'attackers' is still shoved into the reporting.

[magic]

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

[eti]

"Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

Stupid? 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 site https://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 

Have some camomile tea and sedatives, I think you are more a worthy candidate, based on your VERY angry tone 

[Ed.Kloonk]

"Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

Stupid? 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 site https://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 

Have some camomile tea and sedatives, I think you are more a worthy candidate, based on your VERY angry tone 

I thought the rantage was as fantastic responsage.

[eti]

"Hackage"? You mean "hacked". This current trend of appending "...age" to the end of a word or action, is stupid.

Stupid? 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 site https://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 

Have some camomile tea and sedatives, I think you are more a worthy candidate, based on your VERY angry tone 

I thought the rantage was as fantastic responsage.

LOL...

(sorry, I mean LOLage - don't wanna get told off!)

[DrG]

/--/

LOL...

(sorry, I mean LOLage - don't wanna get told off!)

I 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.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Why can't we all get alongage?

[DrG]

The Teenager Allegedly Behind the Twitter Hack and How He Did It

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-teenager-behind-the-twitter-hack-and-how-he-did-it-11596563449

Tampa teenager accused in Twitter hack pleads not guilty

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tampa-teenager-accused-twitter-hack-pleads-guilty-72168491

[eti]

/--/

LOL...

(sorry, I mean LOLage - don't wanna get told off!)

I 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.

One doesn't usually engage with someone/thing which "doesn't interest" them, not sure why you replied. Happy word appending!

[eti]

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.

DON'T YOU GET IT?! It's FAR "cooler" than you see it to be, as it's append(age)d! 

Maybe this hackage package could  be thrown into the garbage?

[eti]

Why can't we all get alongage?

Yes, let's take advantage of our talents, and be nice

[DrG]

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.