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The Mayor's account was hacked ...

rslade — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:07:15 GMT

ISC2 HQ is in Tampa. And, in a couple of weeks they'll have a civic election.

So, somebody hacked the mayor's Twitter account and sent sexist and racist tweets, pr0n, and a fake warning about a missile attack.

City Hall eventually got the account back.

Somebody from HQ wanna go down the street and talk to the mayor about password strength?

(Or, possibly the @rslade account has been hacked and somebody is posting "controversial political statements" ...)

Re: The Mayor's account was hacked ...

denbesten — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:45:01 GMT

@rslade wrote:
... Or, possibly the @rsladeaccount has been hacked...

Inside job?

Re: The Mayor's account was hacked ...

rslade — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:04:53 GMT

> denbesten (Advocate I) posted a new reply in Industry News on 02-25-2019 08:45

> @rsladeÂ wrote: ... Or, possibly the @rsladeaccount has been hacked... Inside
> job?

Read my next book: "The Schizoid Hacker" ...

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Re: The Mayor's account was hacked ...

Early_Adopter — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:02:59 GMT

Let’s advise elected officials that they are better off using MFA to verify their identity to services like twitter - this will help them along side the string passwords/handle properly advice - unless of course they are running on a platform of random pr0n, hate and crime, then can I Guess carry on subcontracting to vandals using weak passwords.

Re: The Mayor's account was hacked ...

Flyslinger2 — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:11:03 GMT

@denbesten wrote:
@rslade wrote:
... Or, possibly the @rsladeaccount has been hacked...
Inside job?

Would be my guess. It's the yellow post-it note stuck to the underside of the Dell keyboard because I was passed over for a promotion hack.