Tag: Twitter

January 11, 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) account on X (formerly Twitter) was briefly compromised on Tuesday, January 9, sending shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market and raising serious questions about the agency’s cybersecurity practices. A fake post announcing the approval […]

January 8, 2024

We gather everyone’s still easing themselves into the New Year. Deleting screens of unread emails, putting on a brave face in meetings, and slowly getting up to speed. While you’re recovering from the Christmas break, Meta has been busy introducing […]

July 5, 2023

Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has […]

May 11, 2023

Twitter is officially beginning to roll out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs) on the platform, more than six months after its chief executive Elon Musk confirmed plans for the feature in November 2022. The “Phase 1” of the initiative […]

March 27, 2023

Part of Twitter’s source code has been leaked and posted on GitHub by an unknown user. GitHub took down the post after the social media platform requested it to do so on Friday. Twitter has also filed a case in […]

January 12, 2023

In August 2022, Twitter informed customers that a vulnerability in its systems had been exploited to obtain user data. The flaw, patched in January 2022, was used to determine whether a specified phone number or email address were tied to […]

January 11, 2023

Twitter has been going through a lot over the last few years, and its troubling past continues to haunt the social media giant. It was recently revealed that hackers had stolen the details of approximately 200 million Twitter users. The […]

December 27, 2022

Just when you thought the various controversies surrounding Twitter were winding down, a hacker claims to be selling the data of 400 million users. The data is said to have been captured in 2021, and was obtained using an API […]

December 13, 2022

The social media giant revealed in August that a vulnerability patched in January was exploited to obtain user data before a fix was rolled out. The admission came following reports that the flaw had been exploited to collect data on […]

November 28, 2022

In August, Twitter admitted that a vulnerability affecting its systems had been exploited to obtain user data. The issue, introduced in June 2021, could have been exploited to determine whether a specified phone number or email address was tied to […]

August 18, 2022

A hacker attack hit Twitter after an unknown individual managed to steal the records (emails and phone numbers) of approximately 5.4 million Twitter users. The issue with Twitter’s cyber security was reported via a bug bounty portal in January 2022, […]

May 26, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a $150 million fine against Twitter for misrepresenting its security and privacy practices. The FTC, in cooperation with the Department of Justice (DoJ), says that Twitter has been using the email addresses and […]

April 28, 2022

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and Twitter’s new owner, on Thursday called on adding support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to the platform’s direct messages (DM) feature. “Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no […]

April 21, 2022

Twitter philanthropists are a controversial emergence on the social media platform. In essence, Twitter-based philanthropy is about incredibly rich people helping out those who need it. The help is random, and often focused around performing a task like listening to […]

December 3, 2021

A Pakistani threat actor successfully socially engineered a number of ministries in Afghanistan and a shared government computer in India to steal sensitive Google, Twitter, and Facebook credentials from its targets and stealthily obtain access to government portals. Malwarebytes’ latest […]

July 1, 2021

“Security keys offer the strongest protection for your Twitter account because they have built-in protections to ensure that even if a key is used on a phishing site, the information shared can’t be used to access your account,” Twitter explains. […]

March 17, 2021

A Florida teenager accused of masterminding a Twitter hack of celebrity accounts in a crypto currency scheme has been sentenced to three years in juvenile prison in a plea agreement, officials said. State prosecutors announced the deal Tuesday in the […]

January 13, 2021

“I think the stars are better aligned than ever in the past,” Keith Enright, Google’s chief data privacy office, told a discussion Tuesday on trust and privacy. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which has applied since May […]

January 8, 2021

For months—years, really—people have asked what it would take for Facebook and Twitter to ban the policy-violator-in-chief from their platforms. Hate speech, doxing, and dangerous disinformation on Covid evidently weren’t enough. Oh, they put (easy-to-ignore) warning labels on some tweets […]

December 2, 2020

If you ask cybersecurity execs where the biggest risk to their companies lies, 41.33% will tell you it’s marketing tech. At least, that’s what research provider Pollfish contends in its October 2020 report of 600 American professionals. Not just any […]