Twitter whistleblower to testify in Congress over damning security revelations
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#62WPJ)
Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security chief-turned-whistleblower. | Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Twitter's former security chief Peiter Mudge" Zatko will testify in Congress next month after he went public with damning allegations about the social media company's security practices and attempts to mislead regulators, the Washington Post reports. Zatko is scheduled to speak at a hearing on September 13th and is expected to address the privacy and national security concerns raised in his complaint.
Mr. Zatko's allegations of widespread security failures and foreign state actor interference at Twitter raise serious concerns," said the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill) and the committee top Republican Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) in a joint statement. If these claims are accurate, they...