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Twitter is vulnerable to Russian and Chinese influence, whistleblower says – KAKE

August 24, 2022
Source: kake.com kake.com
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By Brian Fung, CNN Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to exploitation by foreign governments in ways that threaten US national security, and may even have foreign spies currently active on its payroll, according to Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the whistleblower at the center of a massive public disclosure effort reported Tuesday by CNN and The Washington Post. A combination of weak cybersecurity controls and poor judgment has repeatedly exposed Twitter (TWTR) to numerous foreign intelligence risks, according to Zatko, who was Twitter's head of security from November 2020 until he was fired in January. From taking money from untrusted Chinese sources to...
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