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rslade
Influencer II

The Mayor's account was hacked ...

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" ...)


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denbesten
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@rslade wrote:

... Or, possibly the @rsladeaccount has been hacked...


Inside job?

rslade
Influencer II

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

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

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

====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
It might look like I'm doing nothing,
but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://twitter.com/rslade
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
https://is.gd/RotlWB

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Early_Adopter
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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.

Flyslinger2
Community Champion


@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.