Twitter Hires Top Hacker Peiter Zatko To Head Security
November 19, 2020
4:14 am
Social media giant Twitter, amidst increased threat of regulation and serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world’s top-most among hackers Peiter Zatko, widely known by his hacker handle Mudge, to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
In July, a group of young hackers was said to have tricked employees and won access to internal tools, which enable them to change account settings and then tweet from the accounts of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk.
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