His tweets don’t, unfortunately, appear to reveal any link between Perdana and this mysterious string of DDoS attacks. We’ve reached out to Perdana for further explanation on that score, and will update this post if we hear back from him.
Uh...maybe the OP isn't a tech writer, but don't Perdana's tweets, at least the one with the XSS exploit, explicitly reveal a link to the DDoS? If it forces an auto-retweet, then everyone tweeting at once would seem very much like a DDoS
Comments
Uh...maybe the OP isn't a tech writer, but don't Perdana's tweets, at least the one with the XSS exploit, explicitly reveal a link to the DDoS? If it forces an auto-retweet, then everyone tweeting at once would seem very much like a DDoS
Yea he's most definitely not a tech writer, he refers to the tweet as a "cryptic line of code" when it is very obviously an XSS attack.
No - the DDoS is against a completely unrelated set of sites (Evernote and Feedly) via a completely unrelated mechanism.
This XSS is simple and it isn't like the code isn't in the tweet - all it does is expand the tweet on TweetDeck, click "Retweet", and pop an alert.
I wish writers would at least consult someone who knows how to read code before trying to speculate on stuff like this.