In brief
Twitter's top security staff out after incoming CEO shakes things up
Plus: Nigerian BEC gang bust, NSO woes, and more
25 Jan 2022 00:05 | 3
Articles tagged with Twitter
Security
Need to prioritize security bug patches? Don't forget to scan Twitter as well as use CVSS scores
Exploit, vulnerability discussion online can offer useful signals
19 Jan 2022 21:22 | 2
Applications
Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked
When marketing meets coding
04 Jan 2022 13:05 | 84
Opinion
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?
Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it
27 Dec 2021 14:00 | 96
Applications
Quill users advised to export chat history before servers turned off for Twitter buyout
Yet another Slack rival goes offline, but text-adventure fans need not panic
08 Dec 2021 13:47 | 8
Personal Tech
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits
That's so Meta
29 Nov 2021 21:14 | 30
Personal Tech
Apple's anti-ad-tracking iPhone feature took a '$10bn' chunk out of social network revenues
What's that, the world's tiniest violin playing?
01 Nov 2021 18:48 | 27
AI + ML
Twitter's machine learning algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians over those on the left
Engineers and researchers don't know why
25 Oct 2021 11:02 | 65
Legal
Two Northern Irish cops face Computer Misuse Act charges over Twitter trolling campaign
Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences
23 Sep 2021 15:16 | 6
Personal Tech
Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit
Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors
20 Sep 2021 22:34 | 4
Updated
Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture
11 Aug 2021 00:51 | 17
AI + ML
Twitter uses HackerOne bounties to find biases in its image-cropping AI model
Claims it's the first algorithmic bias bounty competition
02 Aug 2021 07:54 | 8
Personal Tech
Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death
Creator of QWK format suffered fatal heart attack as cops surrounded home
22 Jul 2021 05:11 | 100
Security
Spanish cops cuff Brit bloke accused of playing role in 2020 celeb Twitter hijacking
'PlugWalkJoe' also said to have meddled with TikTok, SnapChat
21 Jul 2021 20:54 | 10
Personal Tech
Twitter U-turns after conferring society's highest honor – a blue check mark – on very obvious bot accounts
Inside job? Human error? Social network says it made a mistake
13 Jul 2021 01:36 | 15
Legal
Disco classic Rasputin and pop anthem revealed as reasons Twitter suspended Indian politicians
Straight-up copyright complaints, not Big Tech flexing its muscles
06 Jul 2021 06:58 | 21
Bootnotes
A real go-GETTR: Former Trump aide tries to batter Twitter by ripping off its UI
Critic points out that restrictive T&Cs just make it 'Twitter without the porn'
02 Jul 2021 19:45 | 50
Legal
India's IT minister angry that Twitter broke local law by following US law
Brief account shutdown due to DMCA request interpreted as sign of avian network’s lawless intentions
28 Jun 2021 02:20 | 46
Legal
India tells Twitter to obey its laws — or make wielding them easier
Minister lashes avian network and suggests its legal protections may have been removed
21 Jun 2021 04:28 | 19
Legal
Indian government to Twitter: Stop offshoring and outsourcing – or risk losing legal protections
Social network lashed for ‘inglorious’, ‘dogged refusal’ to comply
07 Jun 2021 06:45 | 22
First Look
Twitter’s new subscription service costs the same as a cup of coffee a month – though much less stimulating
Twitter Blue only works properly on iOS and just one feature is useful
04 Jun 2021 14:06 | 19
Offbeat
You were supposed to be watching him. Letters from SEC claim Tesla breached deal to police Elon Musk's tweets
2020 missives from American securities regulator to car firm revealed
02 Jun 2021 15:12 | 17
Personal Tech
Twitter given three weeks to comply with Indian content code
Appears to have taken first step by appointing grievance officer
01 Jun 2021 01:45 | 15
Personal Tech
India, Twitter brawl in public as latest content rules begin to bite
Government lashes WhatsApp, too, in free speech vs sovereignty debate
28 May 2021 03:04 | 21
Legal
Indian police visit local Twitter HQ after government spokesperson's tweet labelled as 'manipulated'
Action comes amid raging second wave, government pressure on social networks to suppress misinformation
25 May 2021 04:58 | 6
AI + ML
Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women
And that's why we've let humans take back control
19 May 2021 23:26 | 12
Applications
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin
We're nicer in person, we swear
07 May 2021 10:26 | 48
Bootnotes
Cryptic US Strategic Command tweet reveals dangers of working from home with kids in the way
Was it a coded message? The password for accessing nukes? Nope
31 Mar 2021 01:37 | 43
Personal Tech
US state AGs: How can Facebook, Google, Twitter say they tackle misinformation when *gestures wildly at COVID-19 BS everywhere*
Top legal eagles urge web giants to do more in this life and death matter
24 Mar 2021 23:30 | 34
Science
Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds
Could slow the spread of misinformation without needing draconian law
19 Mar 2021 12:30 | 42
Networks
Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft
See, regular expressions are hard
10 Mar 2021 22:04 | 16
Personal Tech
Twitter sues Texas AG to halt 'retaliatory' demand for internal content-moderation rulebook in wake of Trump ban
Lone Star state and web biz clash over First Amendment rights
09 Mar 2021 23:57 | 48
Security
Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash
Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes
12 Feb 2021 15:21 | 32
Legal
India lifts 550-day Kashmir internet ban, tries to impose new Twitter ban
Twitter flaps about between the law and the right to free speech
09 Feb 2021 05:57 | 3
Networks
Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban
Internet traffic dips markedly as protestors take to the streets
07 Feb 2021 23:55 | 16
Science
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all
26 Jan 2021 19:19 | 6
Personal Tech
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Trump ban means the service has failed
‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump’ says @Jack
14 Jan 2021 07:32 | 92
Comment
Trump's gone quiet, Parler nuked, Twitter protest never happened: There's an eerie calm – but at what cost?
Tech giants leap between positions, leave policy makers uncomfortable
11 Jan 2021 22:51 | 221
Personal Tech
Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable
Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops
07 Jan 2021 21:50 | 173
Security
Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password
And no, we’re not going to prosecute the bloke who found out
17 Dec 2020 07:27 | 150
Security
Twitter scores a first for big tech after being fined €450,000 by Ireland's data watchdog for violating the EU's GDPR
Fellow industry giants shuffle feet nervously
15 Dec 2020 18:59 | 12
Personal Tech
Twitter, Mozilla, Vimeo slam Europe’s one-size-fits-all internet content policing plan
Blanket deletions will smother internet, EU tech chief told
10 Dec 2020 11:33 | 26
Security
No, the creator of cURL didn't morph into Elon Musk and give away Bitcoins. But his hijacked Twitter page tried to
Daniel Stenberg tells The Reg he's baffled by profile hack
18 Nov 2020 06:26 | 37
Security
Legendary hacker and L0pht member Peiter Zatko joins Twitter as security chief
Mudge work to be done after high-profile Bitcoin scam earlier this year
17 Nov 2020 14:03 | 15
Comment
Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim
With few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment
28 Oct 2020 21:37 | 31
Security
After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'
It's saying something when it's easy to believe the US President's passphrase was maga2020!
23 Oct 2020 05:36 | 43
Security
Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body
Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami
15 Oct 2020 14:15 | 6
Personal Tech
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data
Sorry not sorry, Facebook
13 Oct 2020 00:17 | 21
AI + ML
Twitter: Our image-cropping AI seems to give certain peeps preferential treatment. Solution: Use less AI
Let's just go back to human-selected cropping, eh?
05 Oct 2020 07:55 | 20
AI + ML
Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests
Strange, it didn't show up during development, says social network
21 Sep 2020 20:47 | 31
Security
Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election
The Orange One was using a password breached four years previously
11 Sep 2020 09:07 | 68
Security
China’s UK embassy calls for probe into 'hack of Ambassador’s Twitter account'
‘Anti-China elements viciously attacked’ with links to racy personal service provider and propaganda
10 Sep 2020 06:27 | 19
Final update
What's 2 + 2? Personal info, sniffs Twitter: Anti-doxxing AI goes off the rails, bans tweets with numbers in them
Innocuous images deemed a threat, netizens silenced until twitterings terminated
01 Sep 2020 02:39 | 35
Security
National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested
Bognor Regis man still faces 20 years in clink, though
06 Aug 2020 09:10 | 30
Security
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors
Alleged 17-year-old mastermind among trio charged over account mass hijackings
31 Jul 2020 22:28 | 52
Security
Twitter says spear-phishing attack hooked its staff and led to celebrity account hijack
Attack came in waves that probed for staff with access to the creds crims craved
31 Jul 2020 05:27 | 19
Security
Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician's
Waves subside for now as microblogging site faces tough questions
23 Jul 2020 13:42 | 11
Science
Twitter Qracks down on QAnon and its Qooky Qonspiracies
Gives itself a job to ‘protect the public conversation’
22 Jul 2020 07:28 | 58
In Brief
Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos
Plus: BitTorrent CEO puts a $1m bounty on Twitter hackers
20 Jul 2020 10:15 | 4
Security
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
Perps tried to sell high-profile usernames after possibly perusing private data
20 Jul 2020 06:25 | 71
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