telcodad From: https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-updates-2042333 X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing its third major outage of the day, with users reporting widespread login and loading issues. The hacking group Dark Storm Team, a pro-Palestinian cyber group, has reportedly claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post.
px_eliezer_ Gee, who could it have been? Ukraine (as Musk claimed)? Russia, pretending to make it look like Ukraine? China? Canada (some enterprising Canadian teens)? And you know what the Church Lady on SNL would have said…..
px_eliezer_ Musk’s management of the social media platform has caused it to be less resilient. He fired the majority of a 7,500 employee workforce including cybersecurity staff following his takeover of Twitter. In an episode chronicled by biographer Walter Isaacson, Musk in December 2022 stormed into a Sacramento data center and unplugged Twitter server racks before loading them on a semi-truck destined for Oregon. The site crashed four days later. https://www.govinfosecurity.com/x-social-media-platform-hit-by-apparent-ddos-a-27676 Who woulda thunk ?? Firing huge numbers of people and trashing organizations, leads to chaos. Who woulda thunk ?! And from 2023 🇦 But on Mastodon this morning, web developer Sheldon Chang noticed another source of unusual traffic: a bug in Twitter’s web app that is constantly sending requests to Twitter in an infinite loop: This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
egeezer Are his security people the same doofuses rooting through our PII at treasury, social security and medicare?