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"Hacked" is a new and trendy way of saying "Am too dumb to use different passwords on different services or to enable two factor authentication. Also I will give my password to whoever asks for it."
Most hacker attacks are phishing attacks. The term "Hacking" isn't just used for breaching a systems firewall and decrypting the passwords in the command line, while wearing a black hoodie and a guy-fawkes-mask.
I know social engineering is the most frequent form of hacking but you missed the point here sadly. I was ridiculing the deflection of guilt... "My twitter got hacked", not "my stupid ass" or "account".
I get your point, I just don't think, not stating how it happened or degrading yourself by saying "my stupid ass got hacked" has to be with the intent of deflection of guilt. Being careless doesn't make you guilty, the person exploiting your carelessness is.
Tell me you don't work on or around security without telling me. The gist is correct though
I'm a CS student
"most hacker attacks are phishing attacks", while phishing is prevelant, password guessing and spraying campaigns are far more common. I can show you the logs where we get thousands of login attempts daily, we don't receive anywhere near that volume of phishing attempts. Obviously hacking isn't just "breaching a systems firewall". What does that even mean? Reverse shells are incredibly common to bypass inbound firewall rules. "decrypting passwords", I assume you mean cracking the hash. Passwords are not stored encrypted.
I was using movie type of language to illustrate the ridiculousness of the image of hackers media has fed us. Kind of funny tho, how you try to break down my gibberish, to show off your expertise and thereby missing my entire point, which was that the type of hacking image media presents doesn't reflect reality most of the time and if you think the person writing that tweet is deflecting guilt you probably got the wrong idea of what being hacked means.
I was using movie type of language to illustrate the ridiculousness of the image of hackers media has fed us. Kind of funny tho, how you try to break down my gibberish, to show off your expertise and thereby missed my entire point, which was that the type of hacking image media presents doesn't reflect reality most of the time and if you think the person writing that tweet is deflecting guilt you probably got the wrong idea of what being hacked means.
Ignore me, I was having a bad day. Good luck on your IT/security adventure and I wish you the best. Sorry for being a dick.
Thanks, no worries, I was taking it lightheartedly anyway. Props for apologizing tho.
What? The op said "hacked" was a term for resuming the same passwords. Which is closer to the truth than what you said. Again, password guessing and spraying are far more common than phishing. Further, I don't think I missed your point, you know, how I said "the gist is correct". I think it was you acting like hackers act in the media, acting like an expert spouting gibberish not understanding the true basics.