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Head of Security Reportedly Fired; CISO to Leave


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Decision Based on Assessment of How the Firm Was Being Led, Says Memo Quoted by NYT

Twitter: Head of Security Reportedly Fired; CISO to Leave
Are security departures at Twitter tied to its recent embrace of web3 technologies?

Twitter has said it is firing Peiter Zatko, the network security expert it hired in November 2020 as head of security.

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Changes in the composition of Twitter’s security team followed “an assessment of how the organization was being led,” according to a company memo shared with The New York Times.


Zatko, known by the handle “Mudge,” gained fame as a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow ethical hacking collective in the 1990s and later moved to top cybersecurity research positions at the Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency, aka DARPA, and Google.


Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who took over from Jack Dorsey in November, also announced that industry veteran Rinki Sethi, the chief information security officer, will be departing in the coming weeks. The company did not specify if the departure is voluntary.


Sethi in a tweet confirmed her departure and said, “It is with a heavy heart that I announce my impending departure from Twitter. Thanks to all of you that have reached out to check in with me, I appreciate all the kind words, thoughts and love being sent my way.”


Neither Sethi nor Zatko responded to ISMG’s request…

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Twitter Reportedly Fires Head of Security, CISO to Leave


Application Security
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

Decision Based on Assessment of How the Firm was Being Led Says Memo Quoted By NYT

Twitter Reportedly Fires Head of Security, CISO to Leave
Departures possibly related to Twitter’s recent embrace of web3 technologies? (Source: ISMG Files)

Twitter has said it is firing Peiter Zatko, the network security expert that it hired late 2020 as head of security.

See Also: Zero Trust Webinar: Research Insights Exploring the Actionable, Holistic & Integrative Approach to Security

The changes in the security team followed “an assessment of how the organization was being led,” according to a company memo shared with The New York Times.

Zatko, known by the handle “Mudge,” gained fame as a member of the “Cult of the Dead Cow” ethical hacking collective in the 1990s and later moved to top cybersecurity research positions at the Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency, aka DAPRA, and Google.

Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agarwal, who took over from Jack Dorsey in November, also announced that industry veteran Rinki Sethi, the chief information security officer, will be departing in the coming weeks. However, the company did not specify if the departure is voluntary.

Sethi in a tweet confirmed her departure and said, “It is with a heavy heart that I announce my impending departure from Twitter. Thanks to all of you that have reached out to check in with me, I appreciate all the kind words, thoughts and love being sent my way.”

Neither Sethi nor Zatko responded to…

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Crypto.com reportedly suffers hack, losing more than $15 million in Ethereum


Crypto.com, one of the worlds’ largest cryptocurrency exchanges has reportedly suffered a hack, with at least $15 million worth of Ethereum stolen. The hack is the latest in a series of security branches that have affected crypto currency exchanges and it further damages confidence in the nascent cryptocurrency sphere. 

The issues came to light when users began reporting that their funds were missing, even those with two factor authorization enabled. Crypto.com tweeted that it was pausing withdrawals after it received complaints from users. 

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Another T-Mobile cyberattack reportedly exposed customer info and SIMs


T-Mobile has suffered another cyberattack after being rocked by a massive data breach in August. This time around, attackers accessed “a small number of” customers’ accounts, according to documents posted by The T-Mo Report.

According to the report, customers either fell victim to a SIM swapping attack (which could allow someone to bypass SMS-powered two-factor authentication), had personal plan information exposed, or both. The document shows that the customer proprietary network information that was viewed could’ve included customers’ billing account name, phone and account number, and info about their plan, including how many lines were attached to their account.

This summer, the carrier confirmed that a data breach exposed almost 50 million customers’ data, with the attacker accessing social security numbers, names, and dates of birth. (A person who claimed to be the hacker went on to call the company’s security practices “awful.”) The information reportedly exposed in December’s breach is less sensitive (and the documents say the customers who had their SIMs swapped have regained access), and is likely not as large in scope. We weren’t able to find widespread reports from customers that said they’d received notification letters.

T-Mobile’s support account has seemingly confirmed that there was a breach, responding to people on Twitter to say that it’s taking “immediate action” to help individuals who were put at risk by the attack. The company didn’t immediately reply to The Verge’s request for comment.

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