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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by VectorLock on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:14PM (#23854147)
After one incident of insider account tampering their entire response was "we must protect Donald Trump's account."
Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by C1sc0cat on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:42AM (#23859440)
If you do that to a head of state its very visible and leads to major changes.

Same as when a journalist in the UK got a temp job in BT's office in Edinburgh and looked up the queens unlisted phone numbers at Balmoral - lead to a major security incident and massive changes.

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by VectorLock on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:46AM (#23859485)
I bet you in this case not a lot changed. As you can see tons of accounts weren't "protected."
Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by C1sc0cat on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:42AM (#23860120)
In BT it was 3 months later and the only way I could get in that building was if I was personally vouched for by some one the security guards knew.

This was a v high profile project we had two board members as sponsors.

Later on I knew that some team leaders had to be Vetted and this is Developed Vetting - this is the same as TS clearance

I could see this happening in FANG companies to