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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is funding research aimed at changing the way information circulates on social media -- with the goal of combating online violence, hate and disinformation. read more

Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera Twitter security celeb SwiftOnSecurity on Tuesday inadvertently disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting enterprise software biz...

Twitter this week announced the launch of a privacy center whose goal is to provide increased transparency on how the social platform handles user information. read more

It "was a miss on our part", Twitter said.

Malicious mobile apps could be created to scrape and share profile information, email addresses and more.

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.

Twitter and Facebook this week took action against malicious mobile software development kits (SDKs) that were used to improperly access user data. read more

Two third-party software development kits integrated by over hundreds of thousands of Android apps have been caught holding unauthorized access to users' data associated with their connected...

Rogue SDKs covertly harvested personal info, it is claimed Twitter and Facebook on Monday claimed some third-party apps quietly collected swathes of personal information from people's accounts...

Twitter this week announced that its users no longer need a phone number to add extra protection to their accounts via 2-Factor Authentication (2FA).  read more