The social media buzz bucket announced on Wednesday that cash will be added to the profound gratitude it’s doled out since the bug-reporting program started in June. 
Tag Archives: Twitter
“Lizard Squad” hackers force PSN offline and Sony exec from the sky
Hackers calling themselves “Lizard Squad” tweeted a bomb threat that forced a plane with Sony Online Entertainment’s president on board to divert for an emergency landing on Sunday. At the same time, a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack flooded traffic to Sony’s PlayStation Network, forcing the gaming network offline for a short time.
How to improve your Twitter security and privacy
We don’t lump Twitter in the same privacy bracket as, say, Facebook. But like any social network, Twitter is vulnerable to oversharing, data leakage and unintended consequences. We take a look at Twitter’s privacy settings, find out what they really mean, and tell you how fix them up right now, before it’s too late.
Twitter injects favourites into newsfeeds, but is it an ‘invasion of privacy’?
Twitter is taking people’s favourites – what many (mistakenly) have assumed were private – and sticking them into people’s newsfeeds, along with follow notifications. 
How will you pay for the internet of the future?
In this, the 25th year anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web, the man who claims to have invented the pop-up ad and gave rise to an economy of surveillance has apologized, said that the consequences were unforeseen, and invited the world’s citizens to re-imagine a different web. 
Good bot, bad bot? 23 million Twitter accounts are automated
Its latest SEC filing says that 8.5% of active monthly users are automatons, which could mean there are a boatload of bots on the service. Some are spam, some are useful, some are just publications’ own, automated Twitter feeds.
Twitter: 46% rise in requests for user information by governments
In all, there were 2,058 information requests from governments in the first half of 2014, which Twitter says were typically connected with criminal investigations. Those requests covered a total of 3,131 user accounts – 48% more than in the last report.
DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s
The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg. 
Revenge porn hits two high profile boyfriends where it hurts
Former NSA analyst and vocal NSA supporter John Schindler had his pink parts exposed by a lover in an extramarital affair, and a state representative’s chief of staff was outed by a porn star ex-girlfriend and subsequently resigned. Revenge porn might typically target women, but these cases clearly show that we’re all vulnerable when it comes to sharing explicit content. 
SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…