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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by redorb on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:47PM (#23854845)
Happened to me in a minor way with ASCII chat characters running down the search engine results page into other results.

I reported that you could use this to basically block out the serp and they said it wasn't a bug then fixed it.. I was hoping for a t shirt at least..

Now I wished I would've abused it and blogged about it for the resume.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by the797979 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:12AM (#23856299)
I found a bug (not security bug) in an apparel companies website allowing unlimited reuse of their £10 of vouchers. I reported and got a free t-shirt :)
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ithkuil on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:15AM (#23856902)
If you can exploit it to make economic damage, would that count as a security bug?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by bostik on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:58AM (#23857390)
Taken to logical extreme, that would make any black PR or reputational attack a security vulnerability.

Infosec is certainly a hefty part of business continuity, but business continuity itself is a much wider topic.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:58PM (#23855253)
I'd say it's a bug, but not a security bug.

Someone bragging about finding Zalgo in a SERP would not impress me when reading resumes.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Thorrez on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:27AM (#23856377)
You can still blog about it.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by joeyrideout on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:33AM (#23858311)
I agree with their assessment. No sensitive data's confidentiality or integrity was impacted, and no availability impact to users.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by redorb on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:53PM (#23886367)
Their number one source of revenue (search engine results page) could be defaced.
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