Oh up yours, with your clickbait title. A DDOS is not a hack.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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To equate it to something everyone can understand:
A true hack would be like someone actually breaking into your house. Maybe they kicked the door in. Maybe they used the backdoor you left unlocked. Either way, they are in your house.
A DDOS is like a group of teenagers knocking on your doors and windows at 3am just to piss you off.
DDOSing and asking for starlink so that they can DDOS harder
Maybe the title is a ruse to finally grab that notorious 4 Chins Hacker.
Yell at the BBC, my dude.
I could, but I don't think they're going to edit your post. They're responsible for their headline, you are responsible for yours.
He didn’t editorialize, though?? We shouldn’t encourage people to interpret the news before sharing it
Dude, the common practice is to use the exactly same title as the headline of the article.
A lot of communities even have rules specifically saying you have to use the same title as the article, too.
Many of the news-related communities I’m in have rules saying the title must much the headline. I’m not about to go memorizing which community has which rules so I can edit headlines on some posts in some communities because the wording might trigger the occasional pedant.
Tbf, that is the title of the article.
Edit: and honestly, an attack would be a form of hacking. Gaining unauthorized access is not the be-all end-all of hacking. Granted, I would admit this is likely meant to garner clicks, but I would also argue it's technically true.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
One member of the group, who calls himself Crush, told the BBC that Tuesday's attack flooded X's servers with huge amounts of traffic to take it offline - the same blunt and relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques for which the gang is known.
Another hacking group member - Hofa - said the so-called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was aimed at raising awareness about the civil war in Sudan which is "making the internet very bad and it goes down quite often for us".
Anonymous Sudan has been accused by many in the cyber-security world of being a Russian cyber-military unit in disguise and causing cyber-chaos for the Kremlin under the cover of a foreign hacktivist outfit.
However, Crush explained that "a similar thing happened to our country and Russians stood with us so we wanted to pay them back", referring to Russia's support for the Sudanese government as it fights the ongoing civil war.
When challenged about the impacts on citizens, Crush defended the actions and said: "The reason we hit infrastructure is to teach the country and its rulers a lesson, and yes we have red lines, that is if our attacks harm a lot of innocents."
Its most high-profile attack in June disrupted Microsoft services including Outlook and OneDrive, forcing the tech giant to issue a report with advice to customers on how to prevent being affected by the group.
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It was about time.