Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by khazhoux on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:33PM (#23854753)

I can't count the number of times people have asked here "How can Twitter possibly employ 4,000+ employees?". Well, I suppose we've learned 4K isn't even enough for good anti-abuse systems.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Aperocky on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:46PM (#23855549)

Um why not enough and not too much? This alone doesn't say anything in regard to twitter's user count.

This means twitter had omni backend tooling that have manual/programmatic admin level access to production database.

This is a very bad idea, access to production tables should be through a controlled medium and always challenged.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by redisman on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:09AM (#23856572)

Any 20 person startup in cyber security-adjacent fields has thought more about this than Twitter? Jeez this is not a good look.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by blisseyGo on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:35AM (#23855802)

On a serious note, does that 4000+ employees include the content moderators? If yes, then I can see why. If not, then I am not sure what that many employees is for.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by golergka on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:19AM (#23856627)

For middle management to win their political games.

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