Security News

Twitter Draws Data Privacy Concerns with Two New Bugs
2018-12-17 21:17

The two flaws shed light on heightened concern around user data privacy when it comes to data.

Bug Gives Twitter Apps More Permissions Than Shown
2018-12-17 15:57

Twitter recently addressed a security vulnerability that resulted in certain applications not correctly showing all of the permissions they had.  read more

Researchers Find Thousands of Twitter Amplification Bots in Just One Day
2018-12-11 14:02

7,000 Twitter Amplification Bots Found in One Day's Search read more

Social media scraping app Predictim banned by Facebook and Twitter
2018-11-28 12:00

We all want a "perfect" babysitter. But can we trust AI to comb through years of social media posts and label people with a "score?"

Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam
2018-11-15 11:44

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.

Exploit for New Windows Zero-Day Published on Twitter
2018-10-24 18:40

A new zero-day vulnerability in Windows was made public on Twitter by the same researcher who published an exploit for a bug in the Windows Task Scheduler at the end of August. read more

Another Windows 0-day flaw has been published on Twitter
2018-10-24 15:50

And on GitHub there's a proof-of-concept that'll render your system unbootable.

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter
2018-10-24 09:03

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept...

Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
2018-10-18 09:03

Over 1m tweets show that we're suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.

Weirdo Twitter messages were a glitch, not a hack
2018-10-17 16:27

Were you one of the dozens of people who got a bizarre Twitter message yesterday? It's OK. It wasn't a disturbance in the Matrix.