Twitter says the hackers responsible for a recent high-profile breach used the phone to fool the social media company’s employees into giving them access. The company revealed a few more details late Thursday about the hack earlier this month, which it said targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear-phishing attack. This attack […]

Twitter went through a serious security breach last week in which the hackers tweeted on behalf of the profile owners. Most of the targeted accounts belonged to several high-profile individuals. Over the weekend, Twitter worked tirelessly not only to solve the issues but also to clarify their situation. Twitter mentioned that the attackers targeted 130 […]

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of those accounts. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post Saturday that for up to eight of these accounts the attackers also downloaded the account’s […]

Several prominent Twitter accounts, including those of former US president Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, were hacked apparently to promote a Bitcoin scam in what the microblogging site believes to be a “coordinated social engineering attack.” The account of former US vice-president Joe Biden, who is the current Democratic […]

Twitter has for the fifth time placed a label over one of Donald Trump’s tweets for violating its policies after he threatened “serious force” against protesters, escalating the microblogging platform’s spat with the US President. The tweet says: There will never be an Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, DC, as long as I’m your President. If […]

Twitter is working on a new in-app system for requesting verification. The news came to front through Jane M Wong who is famous for reverse engineering apps to find out the next update. A part of Wong’s discovery includes a “Request Verification” option. Twitter mentions that this feature is not yet available to the public. […]

We often tend to share our fleeting ideas and thoughts in various online platforms and remain quite at ease as these ideas remain there for 24 hours and then self-disappear. Twitter has decided to use this Instagram stories-like feature of fleets for its users in India. So you may be quite interested in how this […]

The Twitter account of Amul was briefly blocked, sparking public outrage, but the social networking and microblogging firm on Saturday said the account was restricted after being caught in the platform’s security processes. Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) – which makes Amul brand of food products – found its Twitter account blocked on June […]

For the first time, Twitter put a warning label under two posts by Donald Trump, prompting the US president to accuse the popular social media platform of “interfering” in the presidential election scheduled in November. Twitter highlighted two of Trump’s tweets on Tuesday that falsely claimed mail-in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud in […]

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a mechanism to check Twitter content and advertisements spreading hatred through fake news and instigative messages via bogus accounts. The petition, filed by BJP leader Vinit Goenka, also a member of the Governing Council (CRIS), said that there are hundreds of fake Twitter handles and […]