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Twitter Scammers Target Children’s Musician

Yesterday beloved children’s musician Raffi Cavoukian, best known for his song “Baby Beluga,” received an intimidating direct message (DM) from a verified Twitter account. The message claimed, “Your Twitter account verification badge will be permanently suspended because your account uses images that violate our copyrights.” It also included a link to an appeal form, should …

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How to Protect Your Twitter Account with Security Keys

According to a survey I ran, receiving a code via text is the most popular type of two-factor authentication (2FA). Security conscious Twitter users were therefore probably disappointed to learn that SMS 2FA will only be available to Twitter Blue subscribers from March 20th. However, non-Twitter Blue subscribers can still protect their accounts with 2FA …

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Twitter to Paywall SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication

Yesterday Elon Musk unveiled his latest attempt to monetize Twitter: paywalling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA). Per Twitter’s blog post, “accounts with text message 2FA still enabled will have it disabled” on March 20th, unless they are a Twitter Blue subscriber. Twitter’s blog post emphasized SMS-based 2FA’s security problems as the reason behind the change. However, …

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What the Twitter Data Leak Means for You

Private information from over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacking forum for anyone to download. The data includes users’ email addresses and public information, such as account names and handles. The data was likely obtained in 2021 after bad actors exploited a vulnerability in Twitter’s software. The flaw meant they …

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