It looks like Elon Musk’s social network X has become the new favourite place for threat actors who want to distribute their malware, especially malicious crypto-malware. X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads (bleepingcomputer.com) Hackers hijack govt and business accounts on X for crypto scams (bleepingcomputer.com) …
What Musk had to say to the BBC.
There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…
A couple of weeks back I posted a link to an article by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent, that examined how Twitter was functioning having now laid so many people off – many of whom appeared to be working as Twitter’s social conscience. Twitter, trolls, child …
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Twitter saving money but improving your security
If you are using SMS to authenticate your Twitter you will need to switch to another authentication method before 20 March 2023 as Twitter is going to turn the service to save itself $60m. Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — What you need to do (bleepingcomputer.com) …
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Should the real-time online tracking of aircraft be censored?
Some background reading for Christmas: Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers | WIRED UK I think privacy is the start of good cyber security, but where does privacy finish and it become censorship – and if Elon’s plane is not tracked and publicised, then why is …
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The next step for Elon’s new toy…
Before we get started: Now to continue… Elon held a Twitter poll and now all suspended Twitter accounts are being reinstated: Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors will return • The Register Where is the content moderation council? However the amnesty is not for everyone… Twitter boss Elon Musk …
More privacy issues for Twitter
Following the revelations by Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter: Is Twitter a decade behind in its security practices? – Smart Thinking Solutions It now emerges that one of the essential steps in a Twitter password reset – logging out of any and all devices already logged …