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Monitoring Matters

It’s a natural musk, unfortunately

November 1, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor

Yesterday I did something I promised myself I wouldn’t do, which is talk about Elon Musk. I now find myself breaking that promise two days in a row to explain myself, because you might ask yourself, “What does Elon Musk have to do with security?” It’s a good question! Tangentially a lot of things really. His Tesla model electric cars contain a full suite of modern security and monitoring features of course. I find myself yearning for a simpler time when that’s...

Elon Musk, Facebook, Meta, MySpace, Parag Agrawal, Peter Zatko, Reddit, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tesla, TikTok, Twitter


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Twitter fallout has many questioning the security, legitimacy of the platform

General News

Twitter fallout has many questioning the security, legitimacy of the platform

October 31, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor

SAN FRANCISCO – The bird is out of the cage at Twitter after a weekend of chaos following Elon Musk’s arrival on the scene as the new owner of the social media platform. Beginning on Oct. 27, Musk’s first act in his official capacity as the owner of Twitter was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and legal affairs policy chief Vijaya Gadde. Reports from both the Washington Post and Reuters seem to confirm that Musk’s team worked throughout the weekend in order plan...

Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud, Chris Murphy, Elon Musk, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), Ned Segal, Parag Agrawal, Patreon, Paul Pelosi, Reuters, Social Media, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Twitter, Vijaya Gadde


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Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony on Twitter security failings

Cybersecurity

Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony on Twitter security failings

September 12, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing discussing a whistleblower's claims that were made against Twitter earlier this year. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced in late August that they would be holding a full committee hearing to examine allegations made in July by Twitter ex-security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko of that company’s alleged security failures.  “Mr. Zatko’s...

Chuck Grassley, Cybersecurity, Dick Durbin, Jack Dorsey, Parag Agrawal, Peiter Zatko, Twitter, United States Senate


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