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Twitter Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Whistleblower Complaint

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Peiter “Mudge” Zatko

Watch complete hearing with Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko here

“I’m here today because Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors.”
WATCH: Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko complete opening statement.

Twitter Shareholders Approve Musk’s $44 Billion Buyout as Trial Looms
Approval paves the way for trial over disputed deal in October
Musk, seeking to back out, didn’t vote his shares either way

Twitter shareholders voted for their own financial interests, not the health of the information ecosystem. While the Elon Musk drama unfolds, Twitter has much to do to uphold its integrity standards
https://www.courthousenews.com/twitters-cybersecurity-flaws-pose-national-security-risk-whistleblower-tells-congress/
and
https://www.courthousenews.com/twitters-cybersecurity-flaws-pose-national-security-risk-whistleblower-tells-congress/

“They didn’t care how much it would cost them.” People around Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko are being inundated by offers from secret clients paying for dirt on him, as he testifies on the Hill about an alleged security crisis at Twitter.

Hackers and Security Experts Warn Senate Panel October 7, 1997

Mudge, Spacerogue, L0pht, Hacker News Network, @Stake, Tenable

THIS IS AN EXERCISE IN THINKING – AND – REALITY

  1. Security can be defined as the science of things that shouldn’t happen.
  2. “There’s always a way in”
  3. You’re only as secure as your least encrypted hop.

HOW HACKING GOT STARTED
The Rise of the Underground Engineer By Larry Lange
Hobbit, @dotMudge and Yobie refer to it simply as “The Dinner.” and six others founded the L0pht pretty much out of necessity in the early 1990s. “Everybody had apartments or rooms, but the ‘significant others’ were complaining that there were computers in the bathtub, software strewn all over the place and reams of computer paper all over,” Mudge relates. “So we decided if we all chipped in we could afford a loft space.”
See the Video May 19, 1998  Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate,  (L0pht Heavy Industries)

“Computing with High Ethics”
Ethical Hackers “hax0rs” Starting an InfoSec Career.
In Times When Public Institutions, & Agencies Are Weakening the Trust of the Public
How do you protect the fact finding process?

Title: U.S. Report Weighs Impact of E-Commerce
Source: New York Times (CyberTimes) 4/16/98
video e-commerce – evolution from 1994 – 1911
Can’t believe someone would actually take out a credit card and purchase something over a computer!

Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies

I was so happy when Twitter hired Mudge, but then so disappointed when he fired them, and they deserved it!

Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who was previously the company’s head of security, reporting directly to the CEO.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html

Zatko further alleges that Twitter’s leadership has misled its own board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation, hacking and disinformation campaigns. The whistleblower also alleges Twitter does not reliably delete users’ data after they cancel their accounts, in some cases because the company has lost track of the information, and that it has misled regulators about whether it deletes the data as it is required to do. The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to. Bots have recently become central to Elon Musk’s attempts to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company (although Twitter denies Musk’s claims).

Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy.

The disclosure, sent last month to Congress and federal agencies, paints a picture of a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many of its staff access to the platform’s central controls and most sensitive information without adequate oversight. It also alleges that some of the company’s senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter’s serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.

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Spacerogue.net L0pht,@spacerog,Hacker News Network, @Stake, Tenable
Government is unprepared in 2015!!! Mudge has a long history in
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/spacerogue.html

 Educational CyberPlayGround: CATASTROPHIC CYBER ATTACK
Industries and have names like Mudge, Space Rogue and Brian
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/CATASTROPHIC_CYBER_ATTACK.html

 Ethical Hackers “hax0rs” Starting an InfoSec Career.
Larry Lange Hobbit, Mudge and Yobie refer to it simply as “The
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/ethics.html

 Find Security Experts from the Educational CyberPlayground
News Network @Stake Mudge In 1999 Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc)
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Expert.html

 Find Security information, tools, and resources on the Educational CyberplayGround…
Mudge and the others were hackers who had come from the
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITY.html