Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in
Alice@beehaw.org 3 days agoI’m dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?
Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in
Alice@beehaw.org 3 days agoI’m dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
If they can change the page to a message, then they probably have the access needed to redirect the URL.
sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 day ago
Unless they can edit DNS records, but that’s even harder to do.
Alice@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Oh nvm, I wasn’t aware they’d done that. The article only talks about the outage.