USCENTCOM Social Accounts Hacked
Not sure if anybody else here has been paying attention to the incredibly weird USCENTCOM social media accounts, but they both just got taken over by ISIS supporters: https://twitter.com/CENTCOM https://www.youtube.com/user/centcom (both now suspended). Likely connected to the (now also suspended) @CyberCaliphate. Now how will CENTCOM selectively release war footage to the public? This was the only public-facing source of direct footage of the current bombing campaign I knew about and now it's gone. I guess we're just going to be kept completely in the dark now if they don't bring the account back online. R ps - if anybody has a few spare bucks, I've got an outstanding related FOIA that needs payment: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/kill-death-youtube-...
Screenies: https://imgur.com/a/8XtnR#0 Honestly, the "i love you isis" makes me think this is just a kid hanving a laugh..
Does anyone else find it odd that they posted personnel data on senior US military officials yet the US Government denies that any military networks were compromised? On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Rich Jones <rich@openwatch.net> wrote:
Screenies: https://imgur.com/a/8XtnR#0 Honestly, the "i love you isis" makes me think this is just a kid hanving a laugh..
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Daniel Van Wagenen <dvanwag@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone else find it odd that they posted personnel data on senior US military officials yet the US Government denies that any military networks were compromised?
The government spokesman is ignorant or dishonest. What's odd about that? -- Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
Dnia wtorek, 13 stycznia 2015 14:08:27 Steve Furlong pisze:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Daniel Van Wagenen <dvanwag@gmail.com>
wrote:
Does anyone else find it odd that they posted personnel data on senior US military officials yet the US Government denies that any military networks were compromised?
The government spokesman is ignorant or dishonest. What's odd about that?
The fact that they're not using this to trump-up the to-be-expected "HURR DURR ISIS SUCH DANGEROUS HERP DERP WE NEED MORE SURVEILLANCE GOBBLY-GOOP TERRISTS ARE CYBERWARRING MURICAH!!1!" tripe. Either they have not caught up with what's up, or they're trying to *actually play it down*, which might or might not be indicative of the importance of data posted. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01/13/2015 10:46 AM, Daniel Van Wagenen wrote:
Does anyone else find it odd that they posted personnel data on senior US military officials yet the US Government denies that any military networks were compromised?
Not at all. It is possible (maybe even likely) that whoever wrote the press release about it was told to omit any mention of the personnel data in an attempt to downplay it. People will remember what was talked about, not what was conveniently not talked about. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "You leave Jack Burton alone!" --Egg Shen, _Big Trouble In Little China_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUtX4hAAoJED1np1pUQ8RkK6wP/0EPGEcFaKAD+c0p/Zb7bbs6 5YG2RWGZXfQDb8JVZqFaBfgHWP0PWG7IDHJi8ycl1FXAS0Wgpr7lrflMmw5c5WCm 7qBmLcJX8pHvBd522t5y/W5DoJu+YRJwMHYAPq4xwnFdwWZ3tEdLxlPZ7YwNp7tg 1RdrZyaEYIlzx3fVBahhHnVRI+9+v7m2mJW8mKkoNXbU2ajX8YwCojxVhgQTbNT/ lNYrVwxSYJKGfyPs2YeN3BWyYvPXm1wdVUSgeBrGC5uPTZCCEWzWrlqRRr3+Kmne IetwlosYUebgN8v83RDRjvSCz+rOZmx67Z3v41e7l+VysShc5B1rdsRp4S0uq9v7 V+osI6uZ4dXWfXnOIUGvmsiA/fwIKr2No35i64hQYHw100Poqn1lMq7L4gvBbK5r n6bqMTYlm4k3Qq2SEblVatwe9Qdc3Sos3PaGZvcHRWfoK5HxSsGr0FG7+QJy2Elm l/yc55lViRT/skX/IF90jnqpjX5Kl9c7oHcjHFNxc2Ji/MeASj5IbjAJ/uudJdAE 0KCXfro+CIetvTl7TezhfrV3hFnIwRPi7vPyrv7gAdC4pRU9/oBPJ6CczUsdpSfS sXeUG7ALmIxMbKvLIgTJsBfdTwlxz2LC/uo8CMB1MVtVdviy4sSzGUa/7AxiHr4i 86ewbMl+hTxHHknuFDGf =ol4q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Media I saw reported that the personnel info published was all publicly available. Thus the intent was to create the impression that networks were compromised. Govt line however is that the info was not confidential. I haven't done any research however to confirm even the face validity of that. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:20 PM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net> wrote:
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On 01/13/2015 10:46 AM, Daniel Van Wagenen wrote:
Does anyone else find it odd that they posted personnel data on senior US military officials yet the US Government denies that any military networks were compromised?
Not at all. It is possible (maybe even likely) that whoever wrote the press release about it was told to omit any mention of the personnel data in an attempt to downplay it. People will remember what was talked about, not what was conveniently not talked about.
- -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/
PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/
"You leave Jack Burton alone!" --Egg Shen, _Big Trouble In Little China_
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The Doctor