Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, Twitter's former security chief, offered Congress a litany of alleged issues within the company.
agents. Zatko also alleged that the accounts of every member of Congress—and the wider public, for that matter—were highly susceptible to cyberattacks at any moment given major lapses in Twitter’s security protocols.
“It doesn’t matter who has keys if you don’t have any locks on the doors. It’s not far-fetched to say an employee inside the company could take over the accounts of all the senators in this room,” Zatko said during at one point during. During his interview, he also explained that Twitter’s estimated 4,000 engineers have consistent access to private user data such as phone numbers and IP addresses.
Zatko argues that Twitter’s issues largely stem from being so far behind in cybersecurity, and a failure to properly update and maintain the systems required to protect its own data. “This fundamental lack of logging inside Twitter is a remnant of being so far behind on their infrastructure, the engineering, and the engineers not being given the ability to put things in place to modernize,” he explained.
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