ISIS attacks Cetral Command Twitter

[Whiskeyjack]

I've heard the Joint Chiefs are big up on Grindr. Heard it from a, uh... pal...

There's probably a joke in there regarding a "Rear Admiral", but I'd rather just leave it alone.

 

[Rizzophil]

Why we closing Girno again? They are now fighting against us

 

[Irish YJ]

This got me thinking....

when my friend left his phone on his desk and his Facebook open, I posted some funny shit on his status.

If you knew ISIS' s Facebook password, what would you post as their status?

I'd say something like:

I'm sitting here in Syria absolutely craving some Matzah Balls.

I'd probably post something like....

 

[BobD]

I'd probably post something like....

Not baaaaaaaaaad.

 

[NDBoiler]

Occam's Razor. If an actual enemy of the state broke into a military database, there are thousands of more damaging things he could do than briefly hijack a social media account.

Twitter accounts are easily hijacked, and none of the photos or documents published by the vandal were classified. Just someone (maybe an agent of ISIS, or maybe just a bored neckbeard) grabbing low-hanging fruit.

 

[Irish YJ]

Luck hacked twitter?

 

[NDBoiler]

Luck hacked twitter?

He was getting bored since playing Denver wasn't much of a challenge.

 

[Irish#1]

That assumes the "door" they got through was on the Twitter side. What if they got into a higher security arena that was internal to CENTCOM and then got information from there that allowed access to the Twitter account.

This had to be on the Twitter servers. I would find it hard to believe that the military has an account that has a nailed up connection from Twitter back to any database that contained classified documents or even non-classified documents.

 

[Cackalacky]

Meanwhile, CENTCOM looking for ISIS

 

[Irish#1]

Meanwhile, CENTCOM looking for ISIS

lol

 

[Rhode Irish]

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[Rhode Irish]

damn double post my bad

 

[Cackalacky]

Did you double bump?

 

[Rhode Irish]

Ha. I somehow just completely failed to post this:

I think this does a pretty good job of summing up both what happened and how much it matters. Bonus points for nailing the predictable yet hilarious reaction to it.

ISIS Hacking the Military is Embarrassing But Not Worth a Freakout

 

[IrishinSyria]

This had to be on the Twitter servers. I would find it hard to believe that the military has an account that has a nailed up connection from Twitter back to any database that contained classified documents or even non-classified documents.

There's zero percent overlap between servers/comps that handle classified and those that don't. There's a separate internet for each level of classification.

 

[DonnieNarco]

Oh no not the Twitter accounts. Hopefully they won't get the ones that share cute animal pics next. Who knows what these brilliant masterminds will do next? Leak more unclassified documents?

 

[dales5050]

Who cares, its Twitter and youtube.

Not sure if you're serious here or not but social media sites like twitter and youtube have played massive roles in events such as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. While most Americans use these sites to talk about cats and what they had for lunch...they are pretty damn powerful tools in other parts of the world.

As for this attack itself. It's concerning to me that any area of the U.S. Department of Defense can't even get basic security of a website login correct. It leads me to question the methodology of many other much more important things.

 

[Irish#1]

Not sure if you're serious here or not but social media sites like twitter and youtube have played massive roles in events such as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. While most Americans use these sites to talk about cats and what they had for lunch...they are pretty damn powerful tools in other parts of the world.

As for this attack itself. It's concerning to me that any area of the U.S. Department of Defense can't even get basic security of a website login correct. It leads me to question the methodology of many other much more important things.

This isn't a government problem. It's on Twitter and their security. The government just happens to have a Twitter account.

 

[IrishinTN]

Oh no not the Twitter accounts. Hopefully they won't get the ones that share cute animal pics next. Who knows what these brilliant masterminds will do next? Leak more unclassified documents?

That's it! They were after all those goat pictures!

 

[IrishinSyria]

Not sure if you're serious here or not but social media sites like twitter and youtube have played massive roles in events such as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. While most Americans use these sites to talk about cats and what they had for lunch...they are pretty damn powerful tools in other parts of the world.

As for this attack itself. It's concerning to me that any area of the U.S. Department of Defense can't even get basic security of a website login correct. It leads me to question the methodology of many other much more important things.

If the Army is representative, any real government password follows a standard that is basically unbreakable: has to be a shit load of characters long with every type of character (lc, UC, #, sign) and no recognizable words and it can't be the same as your last 10-15 passwords. They either didn't follow that for twitter, which is really o well, or twitter got hacked, which is also o well.

 

[IrishLion]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"Anonymous" is claiming they've traced the hack of our web-site at WBOC and US Cent. Command back to someone in Maryland.</p>— Dan Satterfield (@wildweatherdan) <a href="https://twitter.com/wildweatherdan/status/554835795572297728">January 13, 2015</a></blockquote>
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