How a 51-year-old celebrity hacker upended one of the world’s most influential social networks

Photo caption: Zatko testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September. Photo credit: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images. Article by Sean Lyngaas and Clare Duffy. CNN Business – October 17, 2022.

New York (CNN Business) — When Peiter Zatko joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the urging of founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey, he was surprised by what he discovered. Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, “was over a decade behind industry security standards,” he later testified. Barely a year later, Zatko was agitating for Twitter’s top executives to address what he described as “a ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities” and to provide a full accounting of its shortcomings to its board. […]

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