Hasta La Gadget!

Being the CEO of a company usually comes with certain perks that customers of the company might not be able to enjoy. In Twitter’s case, we imagine that maybe the account of the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, would be extra safe with perhaps additional layers of security and monitoring.

It turns out that maybe it wasn’t because according to a post by Twitter, it turns out that Dorsey’s account was hacked. This was based on a series of tweets sent from Dorsey’s account that seemed to contain a lot of hate speech that included racist comments and also threats. It was later revealed that the attack seemed to have originated from a source called Cloudhopper.

We’re aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019

.@Jack’s account has been hacked.

The Tweets are coming from a source called Cloudhopper. Cloudhopper was the name of the company Twitter acquired a long time ago to help bolster their SMS service.

Looks like the hackers are Tweeting via the old SMS service… pic.twitter.com/YcU3DTn9wS

— Sam (@Hooray) August 30, 2019

If you are unsure who they are, they were a company that Twitter had acquired a lot time ago to boost their SMS service, suggesting that these tweets could be sent from that service. Twitter seems to have reacted pretty quickly where about after 30 minutes from when the first tweet was made, the company deleted them.

According to Twitter, “The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved.”

Twitter’s CEO Just Had His Account Hacked , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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Due to the slightly more open nature of Android, it had led to this perception that Android is less secure than iOS. That is not necessarily true as Apple’s iPhones have had their fair share of security and malware scares in the past. In fact, a recent report from Google’s Project Zero could end up leaving a bit of egg on Apple’s face.

This is because according to their findings, it seems that malicious websites have apparently been hacking iPhones secretly for years. These websites exploited a zero-day flaw in the iPhone, and given that these websites were said to receive thousands of visitors per week, we can only imagine how many users might have been affected by this.

The malware, once successfully installed, would be able to steal files and upload live location data. It would also be able to access the iPhone’s “keychain” which is where login information is stored. While this sounds scary, the malware is said to be non-persistent, meaning that once the iPhone has been rebooted, the malware would be removed, although not before it could have sent some information back to the hackers.

If you’re worried about the security of your iPhone, it should be pointed out that Apple has already fixed the flaw. The update was actually released at the start of the year so if you have updated your iPhone since then, you should be safe.

Google Discovers Malicious Websites Have Been Secretly Hacking iPhones For Years , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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