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The device at the heart of the controversy was essentially a Raspberry Pi in a fancy enclosure, as Laurens Leemans of SignIPS, who analysed a sample Footfallcam 3D Plus product, told The Register. Footfallcam responded to this by setting up a bunch of Twitter accounts to hurl accusations of extortion at him and SignIPS. Kao later acknowledged these accounts originated from the company and blamed them on "One of our employees," adding: "It's not upon our management. It's definitely not me nor Edward. It is an immature behaviour by an immature person. You know, I couldn't tell you names, but it's one of the engineers."
Sentropy announced its first consumer product - and third product overall - Sentropy Protect, which enables Twitter users to proactively identify and protect themselves from abusive Twitter accounts. Built upon its world-class abuse detection technology, Sentropy Protect is the company's newest product that helps tackle online hate and harassment.
The company will deepen its initial work with Google and move its offline analytics, data processing, and machine learning workloads to Google's Data Cloud. With this expanded partnership, Twitter is adopting Google's Data Cloud including BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Bigtable and machine learning tools.
Facebook told KrebsOnSecurity it seized hundreds of accounts - mainly on Instagram - that have been stolen from legitimate users through a variety of intimidation and harassment tactics, including hacking, coercion, extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, and swatting. THE MIDDLEMEN. Facebook said it targeted a number of accounts tied to key sellers on OGUsers, as well as those who advertise the ability to broker stolen account sales.
If Twitter is suddenly using a dark mode theme, you are not alone. Starting yesterday, Twitter automatically switched to a dark or light theme based on your operating system settings.
Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. In 2018, scammers raked in $180,000 using a successful Elon Musk giveaway scam promoted on Twitter.
Twitter has permanently suspended President Trump's account for concerns that Trump's tweets may cause further violence in the United States. After the violent protests of January 6th, 2020, Twitter banned Trump's account for 12 hours to prevent it from being used to incite violence, such as what occurred in the US Capitol building.
When Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers tried to alert Secret Service that he was able to guess the password to President Donald Trump's Twitter handle last October, there were plenty of skeptics, most notably at the White House. Now, Dutch prosecutors have determined Gevers did guess the password to the world's most powerful Twitter account, but said that he will not be charged with a crime because he was acting honorably to track down vulnerabilities associated with high-profile accounts.
Gevers shared screenshots of the user-side of the account with the Dutch press to prove he had gained access and may have used the account access to tweet a link to a satirical website as the President. Skeptical it would have been that easy to get into such an influential and safeguarded Twitter account with 88 million followers, everyone refused to accept it had happened.
Amazon Web Services announced that Twitter has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines. Millions of people and organizations use Twitter to share and react to what's happening and what people are talking about right now, and Twitter will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to continue improving performance and security for them.