Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Contact: Sue Liming Business Manager Immediate Steps that Associated Press, Twitter Must Take Twitter has been the focus of so many attacks, it makes you wonder when they will begin to take the basic steps necessary to prevent account takeovers like the AP, 60 Minutes and NPR: Twitter should immediately implement Two-Factor Authentication , which requires both a password and a texted passcode in order to get into an account.
This makes it much harder to hack high-profile handles. See the painfully simple video below that gives an example of how to educate people users about what a phishing attack looks like. Again, both entities should give their users guidance on how to create long, strong, site-specific and frequently varied passwords to lower the relative hackability of their accounts. Dr Herb Lin, a cyber security expert, says media agencies are likely to make security changes to their Twitter account.
The account was back online on Wednesday. Bogus article. Published 24 April Published 21 April Published 8 March The A. The episodes raise questions about the security of social media passwords and the ease of access to brand-name accounts.
Logging on to Twitter requires the same process for a company as for a consumer — just a user name and one password. Security experts say Twitter could do more. Microsoft rolled out two-factor authentication last week. Apple added it in March. Both Google and Facebook have offered the service for years.
The wire service's feed has been taken offline and AP corporate says tweets "reporting" a bombing are bogus. Hackers apparently got ahold of the wire service's Twitter feed and tweeted out "breaking" news of a White House bombing that injured President Barack Obama.
Not so, say the Twitter feeds of AP corporate and some employees.
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