The account was compromised over the weekend and Elmo’s 650,000 followers were given antisemitic threats and a reference to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
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Social media platform X published its first transparency report since the company was purchased by Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk says a cyberattack impacted a livestream interview with US Presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social media platform.
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Mandiant’s account on X, formerly Twitter, was hacked and used to lure users to a cryptocurrency phishing site.
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Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko joins the US government’s cybersecurity agency to preach the gospel of security-by-design and secure-by-default development principles.
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Twitter launched encrypted messaging, offering select users the ability to communicate more securely. But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap forward.
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Joseph James O’Connor pleaded guilty for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk.
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Twitter is informing users that tweets posted to their Circle may have been seen by individuals outside the Circle.
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Twitter sent a copyright notice to code hosting service GitHub to request the removal of a repository that contained Twitter source code.
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