Whistleblower Says Twitter Has ‘Egregious’ Cybersecurity Deficiencies

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Whistleblower Says Twitter Has ‘Egregious’ Cybersecurity Deficiencies
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Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko accused the company of “egregious” cybersecurity failures in a whistleblower complaint. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from CNNBusiness, TechCrunch and realDailyWire: Mudge PeiterZatko

of “egregious” cybersecurity failures in a whistleblower complaint dated July 6.negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy” while at Twitter. He said thousands of employee laptops contained copies of the platform’s source code.

Furthermore, he said, many employees had repeatedly and intentionally downloaded spyware on their work computers “at the request of external organizations.” Zatko also said he warned colleagues that about half of the company’s 500,000 servers used outdated and vulnerable software — butjoined Twitter in late 2020 after a high-profile hacking incident and left in January 2022.

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