Security News
Twitter went offline for almost two hours on Thursday, in an outage that the social media platform - used by hundreds of millions worldwide - blamed on a technical glitch. On Thursday Twitter said that, under changes to its Hacked Materials Policy, it would "No longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them."
Twitter is experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from both sending tweets using Tweetdeck, the social network's apps, and website, or from seeing their notifications. Twitter is currently investigating the issue leading to broken notifications and "Nothing to see here - yet" messages, as reported by countless users starting about an hour ago.
American financial regulators in New York have demanded Twitter be subject to harsher rules following the July hacks of prominent users' accounts - as CEO Jack Dorsey furiously backpedals after his website censored a news article from a US newspaper. The New York State Department of Financial Services demanded that Twitter be subject to more "Cybersecurity protections", controlled and overseen, naturally, by itself.
Mozilla released Firefox 81.0.2 today, October 13th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android with a fix for a known issue preventing Twitter's website from loading. The issue affecting a large number of Firefox users caused the web browser to display blank pages or errors instead of loading Twitter pages on both desktop and mobile devices.
Mozilla published a support document with a quick fix for a widely reported known issue causing Twitter not to load on the Firefox web browser. According to a bug Mozilla has been tracking and working on fixing for the last 20 days, some users might see blank pages or errors when trying to visit the social network's website, with some reports also saying that the issue also affects mobile users.
Twitter on Wednesday announced that it removed 130 accounts originating from Iran that were aimed at disrupting the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate. The social platform also explains that it was able to quickly identify the accounts and remove them.
Twitter's search for a new chief information security officer has come to an end. According to her LinkedIn profile, Sethi previously held management positions at eBay, Intuit, Palo Alto Networks, IBM and Rubrik.
Twitter developers are being warned of a security bug that may have exposed their applications' credential information - including sensitive application keys and access tokens. These applications allow Twitter users to incorporate multiple platforms into their Twitter account - for instance, OutTwit, a Windows application, allows users to access Twitter via Outlook.
Twitter developers are being warned of a security bug that may have exposed their applications' credential information - including sensitive application keys and access tokens. These applications allow Twitter users to incorporate multiple platforms into their Twitter account - for instance, OutTwit, a Windows application, allows users to access Twitter via Outlook.
Twitter last week started sending emails to developers to inform them of a vulnerability that might have resulted in the disclosure of developer information, including API keys. Designed to provide developers using the Twitter platform and APIs with access to documentation, community discussion, and other type of information, the portal also offers app and API key management functionality.