Anonymous 'hacks' official N Korean Twitter, Flickr

[rakker]

[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-05/anonymous-hacks-official-n-korean-twitter-flickr/4610722[/url]

[quote]Computer hackers appear to have infiltrated North Korea's official news website and its Twitter and Flickr feeds, posting unflattering images of leader Kim Jong-un.[/quote]

[Take_Opal]

I don't think this is the same Anonymous from the Scientology days.

[Plaster]

Link to the twitter page? I don't seem to find it.

[PassTheBong]

[url]https://twitter.com/uriminzok[/url]

[marcin1337]

I wonder what the password was

[Cowabanga]

[QUOTE=marcin1337;40173793]I wonder what the password was[/QUOTE]

'password'

[Zambies!]

[QUOTE=marcin1337;40173793]I wonder what the password was[/QUOTE]

glorious_leader_dad_69

[paramud]

[QUOTE=marcin1337;40173793]I wonder what the password was[/QUOTE]

kimjongun83

[EddieLTU]

was reading its twitter translated, and i came to this
"Masturbation Haldane against further strengthen the position of the weapon states jeokhaek "

dafuq?

[Obnobs]

NK has a twitter?

[Penultimate]

What would the point of their twitter be, anyway? Their citizens don't even have food, much less a twitter account.

[booster]

Out of interest, how exactly do they "hack" stuff like this?

[Squad]

[QUOTE=booster;40174025]Out of interest, how exactly do they "hack" stuff like this?[/QUOTE]

The same way everything else is hacked? Since the days computers were invented, there has been someone, somewhere trying to break into them.

[Zombie Man70]

[QUOTE=booster;40174025]Out of interest, how exactly do they "hack" stuff like this?[/QUOTE]

My guess is bruteforce, because if they actually got into twitter it would be known.

[JustGman]

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40172063]I don't think this is the same Anonymous from the Scientology days.[/QUOTE]
no "anonymous" is ever the same, that's the whole point.

[Eltro102]

[QUOTE=booster;40174025]Out of interest, how exactly do they "hack" stuff like this?[/QUOTE]

probs social engineering

[Zambies!]

What is social engineering? Sorry for my idiocy

[Neo Kabuto]

[QUOTE=Zambies!;40178812]What is social engineering? Sorry for my idiocy[/QUOTE]

Basically it's tricking someone into giving you the password willingly.

[Banhfunbags]

[QUOTE=Neo Kabuto;40178898]Basically it's tricking someone into giving you the password willingly.[/QUOTE]

"We'll give you more clips of US video games if you give us your twitter account."

[Gook Nukem]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;40178958]"We'll give you food if you give us your twitter account."[/QUOTE]
Fixed

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=Obnobs;40173905]NK has a twitter?[/QUOTE]

its to give outsiders there propaganda filling for the day