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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 18 days ago

[DHS]Threat to the United States. "Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors routinely target poorly secured US networks and Internet-connected devices for disruptive cyber attacks."

www.dhs.gov

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[DHS]Threat to the United States. "Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors routinely target poorly secured US networks and Internet-connected devices for disruptive cyber attacks."

www.dhs.gov

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  • [email protected]
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    9•18 days ago

    “All we have is their shoe size, sexual preference, race, age, gender, location, porn habits, political affiliations, and credit card numbers. They might as well be in the wind, nothing we could have done.”

  • @[email protected]
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    6•18 days ago

    When they’re talking about “poorly secured US networks”, they’re referring to Truth Social, right?

    • @[email protected]
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      4•18 days ago

      You have no idea how much of our critical infrastructure is on the net and poorly secured. And that’s not even including the items (like solar inverters) found with undocumented cellular radios that would bypass any security measures put in place.

      So glad we have a competent government full of people who understand their knowledge domain and totally aren’t fucking morons out in place to destroy every institution they can.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•18 days ago

        Oh I have a pretty good idea about that… But I was actually referring to the fact that Trump’s platform was the first thing attacked after he bombed the country. Yeah it would be great if we had a government that was focused on letting the various agencies do their jobs rather than dismantling everything that keeps us safe and healthy.

    • John Richard
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      They’re referring to all the subsidized bureaucratic closed-source monopoly-spyware that they force you to buy for NSA-purposes.

    • Ogmios
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      2•18 days ago

      Yes, lets ignore real problems in favour of turning them into partisan shouting matches.

      It’s worked so well until now.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•18 days ago

        Nobody is ignoring these imperial invasions, genocides, etc.

        USA is actively supporting them.

    • @[email protected]
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      1•18 days ago

      As much as it would be a true net positive if that was taken down, they’re probably referring to the vast number of networks that actually do viral things.

  • @[email protected]
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    28•18 days ago

    Gee it sure is good we have well funded competent national cybersecurity folks and didn’t lay a bunch of them off

    • @[email protected]
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      8•18 days ago

      I came here just to write this – I thought we clearly chose to leave behind cybersecurity because education and science are bad.

  • @[email protected]
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    4•18 days ago

    Gee! Who could have predicted that! /s

    Personally, Iranians hacking a bunch of computer systems are probably the least of our worries now. Jim Salter posted an image that makes a good analogy. https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/114730060651034011

  • @[email protected]OP
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    31•18 days ago

    It tells you, “DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers cybersecurity best practices for securing US networks.”

    CISA workforce cut by nearly one-third so far

    The agency has lost roughly 1,000 staffers in the wake of the Trump administration’s workforce cuts.

    Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-departures-trump-workforce-purge/749796/

    • greenfire
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      9•18 days ago

      so much money has been SAVED!!!

      • @[email protected]
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        plus - less staffers, less software. less software, less attack surfaces. they should lay off everybody, then you don’t need servers, then nobody can hack you!

  • John Richard
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    7•18 days ago

    Hm, let’s not forget this gem:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

    The government also wants you to believe that Hamas is running AI bot farms with fiber ethernet under all that ruble. But what they don’t warn you about:

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israel-social-media-bot-falters-shares-pro-palestine-content

    https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rise-of-digital-diplomacy-could-be-changing-israels-media-image/

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/netanyahus-media-poison-machine

    https://jewishinsider.com/2024/12/israels-foreign-minister-is-looking-for-a-way-to-spend-150-million-on-hasbara/

    https://forward.com/fast-forward/685456/israel-has-spent-millions-trying-win-hearts-and-minds-abroad-its-about-to-spend-20-times-more/

  • @[email protected]
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    11•18 days ago

    Look, a real life retcon!

  • @[email protected]
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    8•18 days ago

    “Flawless Opsec 👊🇺🇸🔥”

  • @[email protected]
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    7•18 days ago

    Yeah all those big scary Iranian hackers and terrorists making the every day American live in fear

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    3•18 days ago

    Lots of social engineering incoming, no doubt.

    • @[email protected]
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      1•18 days ago

      Are you saying those hot women who want my credit card AREN’T nearby?

  • @[email protected]
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    Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors

    This false dichotomy is pure propaganda. There is probably no higher form of hacktivism than defending a population from an imperial genocide.

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