Security News

Twitter to Verify Those Behind Hot-button US Issue Ads
2018-09-04 10:42

Twitter on Thursday started requiring those behind hot-button issue ads in the US to be vetted as part of the effort by the social network to thwart stealth campaigns aimed at influencing...

Microsoft obliquely acknowledges Windows 0-day bug published on Twitter
2018-08-29 16:18

Flaw allows a local user to obtain System privileges.

Twitter Suspends Accounts Engaged in Manipulation
2018-08-29 11:46

Twitter this week announced the suspension of a total of 770 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation.” read more

Windows zero-day flaw and PoC unveiled via Twitter
2018-08-28 15:56

A Windows zero-day local privilege escalation flaw and a Proof-of-Concept exploit for it have been revealed on Monday by someone who goes by SandboxEscaper on Twitter. The user in question deleted...

Microsoft Windows zero-day vulnerability disclosed through Twitter
2018-08-28 15:39

There is no known workaround for the security flaw.

Windows 0-day pops up out of nowhere Twitter
2018-08-28 03:55

Local privilege escalation in procedure calls It's not bad enough to take Microsoft out-of-cycle, but CERT/CC has just put out a warning of a new privilege escalation bug in Windows.…

Following Facebook and Twitter, Google Targets Iranian Influence Operation
2018-08-24 21:06

The news comes as President Trump tweets opposition to take-down efforts by the tech giants.

Facebook, Twitter and Google Suspend 'Inauthentic' Accounts
2018-08-22 10:48

Social Networks Say Separate Influence Operations Trace to Iran and RussiaFacebook, Twitter and Google and YouTube parent Alphabet have suspended or removed hundreds of pages and accounts tied to...

15,000-strong army of Twitter robots  found spreading cryptocurrency spam
2018-08-10 12:29

Researchers unearthed an army of 150,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam.

Researchers to release open source tools to identify Twitter bots at scale
2018-08-06 19:48

Duo Security published technical research and methodology detailing how to identify automated Twitter accounts, known as bots, at a mass scale. Using machine learning algorithms to identify bot...