Twitter ‘over a decade behind’ industry standards for cybersecurity: whistleblower

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Twitter whistleblower Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko told the Senate Judiciary Committee about information he learned about the social media company's data security shortcomings.

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As for why this happened, Zatko stated that "key parts of leadership lacked the competency' to understand the scope of the problem," and that on top of this,As for the problem itself, Zatko said it could be broken down into two parts. One is that the company has so much information that "They don’t know what data they have, where it lives, or where it came from," and as a result, they "can’t protect it.

Illustrating that point, Zatko claimed that it is "not far-fetched" to say a Twitter "could take over the accounts ofZatko later described a real-world incident that happened, when Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer asked him about a potential threat a Twitter user made to members of the board and executive team. Zatko said he then asked a Twitter employee what the company knew about the individual.

Zatko said that the fact Twitter did not even know all the data it was collecting was a problem, as he had wondered why the company kept having the same amount of the same types of problems every year. While the FTC had ordered Twitter to improve its data security years ago, Zatko asserted that the agency "is a little over their head," given that big tech companies are so large.

 

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