Tag: Twitter
Verkada welcomes new marketing leadership, continues fueling rapid expansion
January 23, 2024SSN Staff
SAN MATEO, Calif.—Verkada, a provider of cloud-managed enterprise building security and management, has announced new investments to continue growing its go-to-market function.
Richard Rogers joins Verkada to lead global demand gen & field marketing; Priyanka Srinivasan as head of product marketing; and Adee McAninch as head of global channel marketing.
With the arrival of new leaders in demand generation, field marketing, channel, and product marketing,...
Coming home to roost
October 11, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Another week, another grab bag of security topics to blog about with news of varying degrees of importance, but it’s all noteworthy.
Keeping with the theme of this week’s blog title we’re talking about Twitter again. Let me preempt this by saying, no, I’m not calling it “X”, and no, it’s not about who you think it is. It’s actually been roughly about a year since they last heavily featured in this blog space when Peiter Zatko testified in front of...
Shalom
August 2, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
It’s been a minute for me as I stepped aside last week for Editor Cory to blog about the ongoing existential crisis of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but I’ve had this week’s topic in my mind at least that long.
First some housekeeping items! I was both out of the blog spot and physically out of it last week, COVID strikes again. I’m mostly better but I’m not loving the thought of dodging this malady every year now. Secondly it hit me during...
A little too X-cited?
July 26, 2023Cory Harris, Editor
So how has everyone’s week been going? Has it been X-citing, X-hilarating, perhaps X-ceeded your X-pectations?
I’m sure you could tell that I repeatedly used the letter X in my intro because that has been the most popular letter in the alphabet over the last several days, thanks to Twitter CEO and megalomaniac Elon Musk.
Oh wait, I need to correct myself – X CEO Elon Musk. Yes, Musk continued his freewheeling ways since taking over the social media giant last year by dropping...
HiveWatch appoints Steve Hult as CRO
June 20, 2023SSN Staff
LOS ANGELES – Physical security software company HiveWatch adds to their collective as they welcome former Twitter revenue leader Steve Hult as their Chief Revenue Officer.
Hult spent the past 9 years at Twitter where he most recently served as Head of Revenue, Developer Platform and Data Licensing. There he led revenue strategy and execution across new business, customer success, and channel/enterprise partnerships. In his new role at HiveWatch Hult will spearhead the company’s sales,...
SMS 2FA out at Twitter for non-subscribers
February 20, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter users are having a case of the blues, or not, as may be the case this week with the upcoming removal of SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) from non-subscribers.
On Feb. 15 in a product update blog, Twitter announced that the popular security process is being disabled on the platform by March 20 due to security issues stemming from what Twitter said are “Bad Actors” abusing the system. While SMS 2FA is one of the less secure forms of 2FA, it...
Pinky Swear
January 25, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
It’s that time of the week where I look at what’s happening in the security world and I tell you what’s interesting.
First up, I can’t believe I’m mentioning Pinkerton for a second time in this blog space. It’s kind of like seeing living dinosaurs, only for a second time now and they’re wearing people clothes. That is what I’m going to do, however, because the old once upon a time detective agency turned protection racket and corporate...
Twitter hack exposes millions of user accounts
January 5, 2023SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO – An online forum dedicated to data breaches and hacking has posted a file containing over three gigabytes of Twitter user data.
A variety of news agencies have picked up on the story as cybersecurity experts digging through the file have confirmed that over 200 million Twitter profiles and other user data such as locations, email addresses, and phone numbers were contained in the breach. Username FazyMalone posted the file on BreachForums, writing, “In January...
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...
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...