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| No, Jeff didn't post this London, ON July 2020 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
This isn't a run-of-the-mill security event - Bill Gates and Barack Obama didn't simply forget to stop using the dog's name as their password - and the implications for all of us digital citizens are more than a little grim.
This is keep-you-up-at-night cybersecurity stuff, and it involves a sophisticated social engineering-type attack targeting the weak-willed squishy bits - Twitter employees - with access to hugely powerful administrative tools.
In the middle of a pandemic, it may seem difficult for us to recognize that this, too, represents a clear and present danger to our digital health. But we can't afford to drop the cybersecurity ball, either, even if Twitter seems to have lost the script.
For the record, this is me. I haven't been hacked. At least I THINK I haven't.
Sigh.
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