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Twitter whistleblower to detail ‘dire’ security threats ahead of Musk deal vote

September 13, 2022September 17, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A former Twitter Inc executive turned whistleblower is set to testify on Tuesday before a U.S. Senate committee about his claims of serious security lapses at the social media network. A deadline for Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk’s deal to buy the company also falls on Tuesday. The testimony of Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, […]

Twitter paid whistle-blower $7 million for silence, says Musk’s lawyer

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Twitter Inc paid a whistle-blower who raised questions about operational problems within the social media platform $7 million to secure his silence, according to a lawyer for Elon Musk. The payment was mentioned in passing at a Sept. 6 hearing in the lawsuit between Twitter and Musk over his attempts to cancel a $44 billion […]

Musk sends fresh letter to scrap Twitter deal after whistleblower claims

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Elon Musk has sent an additional letter of deal termination to Twitter Inc after the world’s richest person subpoenaed a whistleblower seeking documents on how the social media company measures spam accounts. Musk walked away from a $44-billion offer for Twitter in July saying the company misled him and regulators about the true number of […]

Whistleblower complaint: House panel summons Twitter executives

August 25, 2022August 26, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has summoned executives of social media platform Twitter for a hearing, a day after a former executive of the platform alleged that the Indian government had “forced” Twitter to hire individuals who were “government agents” and had unsupervised access to vast amounts […]

Who is Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko? The whistleblower who accused Twitter of cyber malpractices

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Former Twitter head of security Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko has nudged the US federal regulators that the company has put “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its handling of user information and spam bots. This development comes a day after Elon Musk has dragged former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to court as part of the ongoing litigation with […]

Indian government forced Twitter to put ‘agent’ on payroll, grant access to user data, says former security chief

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Whistle-blower alleges that the company misled regulators about deficiencies in its ability to protect users against hackers or even spam Whistle-blower alleges that the company misled regulators about deficiencies in its ability to protect users against hackers or even spam Peiter Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, has alleged that the Indian government forced […]

Twitter’s former security head claims company misled regulators about bot accounts – reports

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, CNN and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing whistleblower disclosures by the social media company’s former security chief Peiter Zatko. Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated […]

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