Posted on Jan 12, 2015
Twitter Account for US Central Command Hacked and Filled with pro-ISIS Messages
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The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command has been hacked, and is carrying messages promoting the Islamic State -- including one that says, "AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS."
Another page shows what appears to be an image from a computer web cam in a military facility. An accompanying tweet says, "ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base."
Central Command officials say they are "aware" of the issue and are "addressing" it.
"This is bad," one Central Command source told Fox News.
The Twitter account now carries an image identifying the page as "CyberCaliphate," with a message that says, "I love you ISIS."
The page has started posting screen shots of information about military commanders, including phone numbers and email addresses.
The same image at the top of the hacked Twitter page has also been emblazoned atop Central Command's YouTube page.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/12/twitter-account-for-us-central-command-hacked-filled-with-pro-isis-messages/
Another page shows what appears to be an image from a computer web cam in a military facility. An accompanying tweet says, "ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base."
Central Command officials say they are "aware" of the issue and are "addressing" it.
"This is bad," one Central Command source told Fox News.
The Twitter account now carries an image identifying the page as "CyberCaliphate," with a message that says, "I love you ISIS."
The page has started posting screen shots of information about military commanders, including phone numbers and email addresses.
The same image at the top of the hacked Twitter page has also been emblazoned atop Central Command's YouTube page.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/12/twitter-account-for-us-central-command-hacked-filled-with-pro-isis-messages/
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Not a huge surprise. It's only a matter of time. Either take care of the problem or the problem will take care of you. Calling them barbarians and scoffing at their naughtyness just pushes the can down the road and enables it. I'd be interested to see who's family names and addresses were posted on line. You have to assume they have all that information already. I still say...BRING IT.
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Oh Noes! Not our Tweets!
http://xkcd.com/932/
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Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
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Capt Richard I P.
CPT Zachary Brooks How are you getting thumbs ups for commenting but I'm getting zilch? I feel like my theft of other people's work for my own gain has been stolen for someone else's gain.
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Capt Richard I P.
CPT Zachary Brooks Are you implying my detailed consideration of the security situation, likelihood of genuine network penetration, plausibility of substantial negative outcomes, comparison of this body of analysis to relevant media, research and retrieval of said media, proper attribution and linking to source of said media with humorous albeit thought-inspiring labeling took less thought than your three sentences?! Sentences that essentially said "I agree (with the message resulting from all that work Capt Porter did) ...discrete new piece of information totaling six words....let's see what happens?"
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Then they also know that we all have a few extra guns laying around the house.
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Twitter and Youtube accounts get hacked all the time. Question is can Cyber command track this back to the source and apply any type of direct action?
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With the amount of Computer programing courses and all these languages out in the civilian sector to learn from and mind you Sir, most are either free or stolen, I figured anything is possible. If a child can accidentally hack a Federal account that was not intended to be hacked yet get pinpoint by the Feds, I guess any account can be hacked into. Twitter well, can be hacked by any kiddy hacker like ISIS. Its the Black hacker that is the most dangerous of all because they can hit the financial system here and really do the kind of damage I don't even want to talk about.
Now to raise a question that may not be too pleasing is how do we being members of RP know with certainty that ISIS is not here in RP appearing to be friendly under false pretense's gathering information as we post these responses?
There are allot of veterans out there in the world whom have never heard of RP, yet because of that someone from ISIS uses what they may know about them and create an account here. These are the things I think about.
Now to raise a question that may not be too pleasing is how do we being members of RP know with certainty that ISIS is not here in RP appearing to be friendly under false pretense's gathering information as we post these responses?
There are allot of veterans out there in the world whom have never heard of RP, yet because of that someone from ISIS uses what they may know about them and create an account here. These are the things I think about.
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I don't consider the hack of social media sites very sophisticated or damaging to CENTCOM.
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COL (Join to see)
There are many different ways of getting PII. poor operations security, mishandling of information or someone with google/Boolean logic skills can cause havoc on the internet. I am sure they didn't get into the DODIN, where this type of data should have been stored if it should have been stored.
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PV2 (Join to see)
I still say overall from a public affairs viewpoint you are still doing good. Working in govt, it's nice to see what other areas of the govt are doing. It's not just for the fellow military but for civililian leaders too.
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SSG Kevin McCulley
I concur, PV2 (Join to see). When it makes leaders more accessible, that builds trust. When juniors have that trust and know the seniors do have their best interests at heart they can swallow a lot more adversity. I'd say SMA Chandler is really the first SMA that wasn't just a picture on a chain of command board for a vast majority of the Army. Social media did that, not flying all over the planet.
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CMSgt (Join to see)
CENTCOM, SOCOM, SOCCENT... they all have social media pages, Shirt. Good for putting out innocuous Public Affairs information to the masses.
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