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Mozilla has patched high-severity spoofing, privacy and remote code execution vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird.

Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk.

To the cockpit, to the controls. you know, that is entirely unnecessary. it might be easy, but there, it is too easy to accidentally or intentionally turn an engine off. >> twitter accounts belonging to a whole lot of famous people -- >> that kind of access contributed to the massive attack in the summer of 2020, when the hackers, two of them teenagers, tricked a couple of twitter employees into letting them into twitter systems. that gave him access to accounts, including that of presidential c...

Calendar year will be decisive in the outcome of the war. jonathon beale. the former head of security at twitter has accused the company of hiding negligent practises, misleading federal regulators about its safety, and failing to properly estimate the number of spam accounts that exist on the social media platform. peter zatcos whistle—blowing testimony, which has been passed to the us regulators, could have serious consequences for the company. twitter says mr zatkos allegations are inaccura...

Classified documents at mar-a-lago in the january batch. there was a four-month delay before the fbi got a look at the documents. that happened in may. there hasnt been all that much time. but secondly, there seems to be some concern in the biden administration of taking any action that would appear to be political, of having any agency other than the independent justice department have its hands on this case. were sensing that reluctance. theres a reluctance to put anything in writing that coul...

CISA is warning that Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS is under active attack and needs to be patched ASAP.

Share his political ambitions and needs in a very granular level with agents of russia, and i wonder what you think of trumps closest election overturning lawyer -- i dont know what you call sidney powell. having her hands on the most sensitive kind of voting system information. >> well, once again, we find out how vulnerable our systems are. perhaps we had been naive or complacent about the guardrails, the protections against someone like a donald trump and once again, were finding out that he ...

Board wasnt aware, which is a pretty egregious error. the board needs to understand what risks are not business, and some of these vulnerabilities were selectively removed so that it didnt perceive that twitter was insecure to its board members. as well as just a laundry are list of horrible practices within a company, and well see that from time to time in organizations, but the ability for a ceo of a company to hide those avulnerabilities or to mak them is very unusual. >> david, let me stay w...

Do. >> foreign intelligence agencies have the resources to identify vulnerabilities that could have systemic effects across entire platforms, across the whole internet. >> reporter: twitter told cnn that since the 2020 hack, it had improved these access systems and had trained staff to protect themselves against hacking. if youre running any system, the more people that have access to the main switches, thats a very risky situation. >> yes. absolutely. im talking in generalities, just large tech...

Right, and it looks like hes doing that in this case as well. >> david, you mentioned his testimony. we saw some video from a testimony couple decades ago. after the frances hogan testimony last fall, there were all these commitments to get to the bottom of it and regulate, and then nothing happened. we have senator blumenthal asking the ftc to investigate as well. what can congress do? and whats your degree of optimism that they will do anything? >> well, i think this definitely puts a fire und...