Tag: Twitter

February 27, 2019

Because many organizations tend to overlook or underestimate the threat, social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, are a huge blind spot in enterprise defenses. Social media platforms present far more than just a productivity drain for organizations. New […]

February 27, 2019

The greatest threats to the enterprise are often those that use social engineering to extract information or data from employees. For threat actors, this tactic rarely requires any technical know-how, so the barrier to entry is low. To make matters […]

December 18, 2018

While investigating an information disclosure flaw affecting one of its support forms, Twitter discovered a possible attack coming from IP addresses that may be linked to state-sponsored actors. Last month, Twitter became aware of a bug related to a support […]

September 24, 2018

A bug in Twitter Account Activity API has exposed some users’ direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers. “We recently published a notice about a bug related to our Account Activity API that could have resulted […]

July 24, 2018

The open-source Data Transfer Project, intended to simplify and protect data transfer across apps, comes at a sensitive time for many of the participating organizations. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have teamed up to launch a new initiative dubbed the […]

February 14, 2018

The UK Home Office on Monday unveiled a £600,000 artificial intelligence (AI) tool to automatically detect terrorist content. The Home Office cited tests that show the new tool can automatically detect 94% of Daesh propaganda with 99.995% accuracy. That accuracy […]

November 6, 2017

Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter should help the U.S. government retaliate against Russia for meddling in the 2016 presidential elections, according to Senator Mitch McConnell. Attorneys for Google, Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress about how their platforms […]

March 9, 2017

Here are some interesting Twitter reactions regarding the WikiLeaks release of 8,761 documents and files they claim originate from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. “After hours of reading my conclusion […]

January 26, 2017

Juan Echeverria, a computer scientist at UCL, has published a paper on a network of 350,000 Twitter bots he calls the Star Wars botnet. Some of the accounts are used to fluff up follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics. […]

August 25, 2016

Keeping their botnet out of law enforcement’s and other criminals’ hands is imperative for botmasters if they want to keep earning. C&C servers are the norm, but they can be tracked down, seized by the authorities and, ultimately, reveal crucial […]

June 10, 2016

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least 310 million users visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter password. This is not because they are as insecure as […]

February 23, 2016

Twitter has addressed a privacy bug that exposed email addresses and phone numbers associated with roughly 10,000 user accounts. According to the social media company, the flaw affected its password recovery system for approximately 24 hours last week. Users whose […]

February 19, 2016

Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website’s password recovery feature. The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last […]

February 12, 2016

Twitter this week announced the formation of the Twitter Trust & Safety Council, an initiative designed to boost user trust across the social media network. The micro-blogging company serves around 320 million users, ranging from content creators to activists, and […]

September 7, 2015

When #metro bank opened its doors five years ago, it was reportedly the first new #high street bank to launch in the #uk for over 150 years. It may have joined an old club, but now its #customers are at […]

July 16, 2015

Twitter has introduced data dashboard, a tool to help monitor and manage user accounts. The dashboard shows account activation details, the devices that have accessed user accounts and recent login history. Users who see login activity from an app they […]

July 6, 2015

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 5 ways to stop the Internet of Things from becoming the Internet of Thieves This is the Internet universalized, embedded more deeply into every aspect of our […]

August 16, 2011

There is so much happening on the streets of London and news channels are rushing toward news headlines and talk shows. People are either on streets or are sitting in front of their televisions looking for news coming in every […]