US Centcom twitter and youtube accounts hacked

hellarda · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:20

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30785232

Just seen this (don't think theres another thread?)

Worrying if the picture from inside the military base is genuine... Also do we reckon IS themselves are behind it? Would they have the resources etc?

William-Mathew · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:24

Kind of doubt that IS are behind the hacking as you would think that they would not know how to do that, but you never know

Xordium · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:27

What makes you say that they seem especially social media savvy and use it to great effect in their cause. They also seem to attract educated people from all over the globe.

Telecaster · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:36

Just a hunch, but the wording of their tweets sounds extremely trollish:

"ISIS is already here, we're in your PCs"

Sounds very 'all your base are belong to us' IMO, some more hacktivists just making a statement?

Mynight · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:44

One of the documents at least being already public suggests it's bull.

Deleted member 66701 · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:51

William-Mathew said:
Kind of doubt that IS are behind the hacking as you would think that they would not know how to do that, but you never know

Why would they not know how to do it? They aren't some backwards group, barefooted and living in caves. They are extremely well funded, very tech and media savvy with considerable expertise in military organisation.

Mynight · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:52

^^ recruiter detected

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It's true though they certainly have the funding to do it.

Edit: got it wrong a hacker who got jailed for posting tony blairs NI number and various details online fled to Syria Apparantly whilst he was under watch.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/team-poison-phone-bomb-hacker-anti-terror-367660

XeNoN89 · 12 Jan 2015 at 20:03

Telecaster said:
Just a hunch, but the wording of their tweets sounds extremely trollish:

"ISIS is already here, we're in your PCs"

Sounds very 'all your base are belong to us' IMO, some more hacktivists just making a statement?

Agreed, most likely just somebody trolling

HAz · 12 Jan 2015 at 20:27

Lol cyber jihad

Azza · 12 Jan 2015 at 20:52

Twitter and YouTube accounts hacked... okay Jeff most certainly inside their PCs.

Clarkson · 12 Jan 2015 at 20:52

This is simply a 'hack' of a twitter account...not a secure server or something with top secret data.

The Funktopus · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:11

Embarrassing, yet overwhelmingly inconsequential on the grand scale of things. I'd imagine IS fighters will continue being obliterated by JDAMS despite this "victory".

gettothechopper · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:14

Clarkson said:
This is simply a 'hack' of a twitter account...not a secure server or something with top secret data.

This

Its a twitter hack not a us govt system hack

V F · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:16

Fuggan · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:26

Surely we can't be far from the end of the world if all this keeps escalating?

Nutella33 · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:30

Fuggan said:
Surely we can't be far from the end of the world if all this keeps escalating?

Strife212 · 12 Jan 2015 at 21:45

Telecaster said:
Just a hunch, but the wording of their tweets sounds extremely trollish:

"ISIS is already here, we're in your PCs"

Sounds very 'all your base are belong to us' IMO, some more hacktivists just making a statement?

XeNoN89 said:
Agreed, most likely just somebody trolling

That's what they're like.

Clarkson said:
This is simply a 'hack' of a twitter account...not a secure server or something with top secret data.

It's still an official USCENTCOM account that someone let the password escape for, pretty bad.

asim18 · 13 Jan 2015 at 01:02

HAz said:
Lol cyber jihad

My thoughts exactly.

It seems convenient on the brink of western governments showing signs of wanting to infiltrate, seize and control the Internet as we know it.

This new buzzword will have brain-dead citizens wishing that the government seizes the internet, and quickly!

Psyops are increasing.

Jono8 · 13 Jan 2015 at 08:45

asim18 said:
My thoughts exactly.

It seems convenient on the brink of western governments showing signs of wanting to infiltrate, seize and control the Internet as we know it.

This new buzzword will have brain-dead citizens wishing that the government seizes the internet, and quickly!

Psyops are increasing.

So are my shares in tin foil.

OhEsEcks · 13 Jan 2015 at 10:32

Strife212 said:
It's still an official USCENTCOM account that someone let the password escape for, pretty bad.

Not really. You'd be surprised how inept government departments are at securing infrastructure. They'll have given the social media account to someone that was "in the know" about such things. Possibly even an outside PR firm. I've heard of absolute nobodies running "social media expert" companies and the like that just get paid to tweet for corporate. They have absolutely no skills whatsoever beyond PR, they're just as inept at security as Doris from accounting who'll open any old attached file in an email if it's labelled "this will make your day!"

Skip to 4:15 in this video

The guy speaking is Marcus Ranum, author of "The myth of homeland security" and a pretty big name in security, networking and vulnerabilities.

There's a reason people like Gary McKinnon spent many months undetected in actual US government systems.

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