{"id":7003,"date":"2022-09-12T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:38:32","slug":"twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter whistleblower: what questions will Peiter Zatko face from lawmakers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s former head of security, Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko, will appear in front of lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. He is expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings at the social media platform, having outlined a litany of concerns in a <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22186683\/twitter-whistleblower-disclosure.pdf\">whistleblower complaint<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>The former hacker, widely respected in his field as an information security specialist, joined Twitter on 16 November 2020 and was fired on 19 January 2022. His complaint levels allegations of incompetence and fraud at Twitter, saying that he uncovered \u201cextreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter in every area of his mandate\u201d, including weak controls of employee access to user data and interference by foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/12\/twitter-peiter-mudge-zatko-us-data-information-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5ca6976788276137f57d70c9692434ad0a897f88\/0_0_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e592f023ed50418346547e5b1e414326\" title=\"Twitter whistleblower: what questions will Peiter Zatko face from lawmakers?\" \/>Whistleblower expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings<br \/>\nTwitter\u2019s former head of security, Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko, will appear in front of lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. He is expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings at the social media platform, having outlined a litany of concerns in a whistleblower complaint last month.<br \/>\nThe former hacker, widely respected in his field as an information security specialist, joined Twitter on 16 November 2020 and was fired on 19 January 2022. His complaint levels allegations of incompetence and fraud at Twitter, saying that he uncovered \u201cextreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter in every area of his mandate\u201d, including weak controls of employee access to user data and interference by foreign governments. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings Twitter\u2019s former head of security, Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko, will appear in front of lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. He is expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings at the social media platform, having outlined a litany of concerns in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter whistleblower: what questions will Peiter Zatko face from lawmakers?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}