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Twitter chooses AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure

December 17, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Twitter has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines. Under the multi-year deal, Twitter will …

Digital thought clones manipulate real-time online behavior

December 7, 2020

In The Social Dilemma, the Netflix documentary that has been in the news recently for its radical revelations, former executives at major technology companies like Facebook, …

Twitter employees were spear-phished over the phone

July 31, 2020

Twitter has finally shared more details about how the perpetrators of the recent hijacking of high-profile accounts to push a Bitcoin scam managed to pull it off. The way in …

High-profile Twitter accounts hijacked to push Bitcoin scam. How did it happen?

July 16, 2020

The Twittersphere went into overdrive on Wednesday as a bunch of prominent, verified Twitter accounts were hijacked and started promoting a COVID-19 cryptocurrency giveaway …

Software vulnerabilities sometimes first announced on social media

May 7, 2020

Software vulnerabilities are more likely to be discussed on social media before they’re revealed on a government reporting site, a practice that could pose a national …

How people deal with fake news or misinformation in their social media feeds

March 20, 2020

Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide people with a lot of information, but it’s getting harder and harder to tell what’s real and …

State-sponsored actors may have abused Twitter API to de-anonymize users

February 4, 2020

A Twitter API that’s intended to help new account holders find people they may already know on Twitter has been abused by known and unknown actors to tie usernames to …

Twitter finally allows users to delete their phone number without disabling 2FA

November 22, 2019

Twitter users can finally delete their mobile phone number from their account while still being able to use 2FA to additionally secure it. The move comes after too many …

Twitter 2FA phone numbers “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes

October 9, 2019

Twitter’s Support account published the following announcement on Tuesday: We recently found that some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security …

BotSlayer tool can detect coordinated disinformation campaigns in real time

September 17, 2019

A new tool in the fight against online disinformation has been launched, called BotSlayer, developed by the Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media. The …

While cybercriminals abuse Twitter, threat researchers use it to boost threat intelligence efforts

July 30, 2019

Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, according to Trend Micro. Misuse of social networks …

Researchers develop app to detect Twitter bots in any language

June 18, 2019

Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used …

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