Security News

New Open Source Tools Help Find Large Twitter Botnets
2018-08-06 15:52

Duo Security has created open source tools and disclosed techniques that can be useful in identifying automated Twitter accounts, which are often used for malicious purposes. read more

Activist Leaks 11,000 Private Messages from WikiLeaks' Twitter Chats
2018-07-31 06:48

An activist has just leaked thousands of private messages of an organization that's been known to publishing others' secrets. More than 11,000 direct messages from a Twitter group used by...

Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
2018-07-26 10:04

Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.

Twitter Curbs Access for 143,000 Apps in New Crackdown
2018-07-25 15:20

Twitter said Tuesday it had removed more than 143,000 apps from the messaging service since April in a fresh crackdown on "malicious" activity from automated accounts. The San Francisco-based...

Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency
2018-07-25 11:06

Scammers have been exploiting Twitter for months now to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account.

Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
2018-07-24 11:35

The bot scraped Venmo's public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the "buyers."

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter make leaving easier
2018-07-23 11:46

The Data Transfer Project will allow users to move their data easily between participating services.

Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking
2018-07-17 10:46

The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.

Twitter pops a lot of famous people’s follower bubbles
2018-07-16 13:13

It wiped out accounts locked due to misbehavior, obliterating about 4 followers for non-famous mortals and millions for the glitterati.

Twitter Unveils New Processes for Fighting Spam, Bots
2018-06-28 16:25

Twitter this week shared some details on new processes designed to prevent malicious automation and spam, along with data on the positive impact of the measures implemented in the past period. read more