Twitter Chief Information Security Officer flies the coop
(2022/11/10)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/11/10/twitter_ciso_quits/
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Troubled social media giant Twitter has lost the services of its chief information and security officer to cap off another chaotic week following its acquisition by Elon Musk.
Lea Kissner used their former employer’s platform to [1]post : “I've made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I've had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I'm so proud of the privacy, security, and IT teams and the work we've done.”
They later posted, “I've loved this job and we got *so* much done, but here we are.”
[2]
Chief privacy officer Damien Kieran and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty are also said to have exited.
[3]
[4]
Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla supremo [5]Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform at the end of October, after first bidding for it in April.
Having spent months in legal wrangling trying to pull out of the deal, Musk took to the helm with undeniable, if chaotic, zeal. His tenure has so far included the firing of half the workforce before he was apparently [6]forced to re-hire individuals who had been laid off by mistake.
[7]
He has also tweeted, then denied tweeting, [8]fake news on the platform he said he would cleanse of misinformation.
This week saw the [9]Twitter "Official" label show up on the platform as a way to fix an arguably unbroken verification system, only to apparently disappear from many accounts after less than 24 hours.
The gray "Official" label was announced as a way to differentiate verified accounts from Twitter Blue subscribers, all of whom get the formerly exclusive blue check mark.
[10]I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value
[11]Musk sows chaos with Twitter Official policy
[12]Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter
[13]Twitter begs some staff to come back, says they were laid off accidentally
Meanwhile, the ability of nefarious individuals to spoof well-known personalities and brands using the new paid-for blue tick policy has reared its ugly head again.
Advertisers are unlikely to be assured at the [14]sight of a seemingly verified but spoof Nintendo account displaying a Mario brother giving the middle finger to twits, even if @nlntendoofus is now suspended.
[15]
Kissner has worked in security, privacy and engineering roles at Apple, Zoom and Google. Perhaps the latest week of Twitter chaos was one too many to bear. ®
Stop press
An internal legal memo leaked from within Twitter, and [16]reported by The Verge, has suggested Musk is willing to risk regulatory fines and more to recoup his multi-billion-dollar losses on Twitter by monetizing the site and app more and more. "Elon puts rockets into space, he's not afraid of the FTC," one of the Tesla tycoon's top aides is said to have told tweeps.
This would be a reference to agreements between Twitter and the US watchdog that the web biz has full measures and safeguards in place to preserve people's privacy after multiple prior lapses in data protection.
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[1] https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1590706305102381058
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/musk_sink_twitter/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/twitter_recalls_staff/
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/31/elon_musk_chief_twit_acts/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/official_twitter_musk_payment/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/twitter_verified_opinion/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/official_twitter_musk_payment/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/09/musk_sells_nearly_4_billion/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/twitter_recalls_staff/
[14] https://twitter.com/themattprov/status/1590476929294946304
[15] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[16] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
[17] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Lea Kissner used their former employer’s platform to [1]post : “I've made the hard decision to leave Twitter. I've had the opportunity to work with amazing people and I'm so proud of the privacy, security, and IT teams and the work we've done.”
They later posted, “I've loved this job and we got *so* much done, but here we are.”
[2]
Chief privacy officer Damien Kieran and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty are also said to have exited.
[3]
[4]
Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla supremo [5]Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform at the end of October, after first bidding for it in April.
Having spent months in legal wrangling trying to pull out of the deal, Musk took to the helm with undeniable, if chaotic, zeal. His tenure has so far included the firing of half the workforce before he was apparently [6]forced to re-hire individuals who had been laid off by mistake.
[7]
He has also tweeted, then denied tweeting, [8]fake news on the platform he said he would cleanse of misinformation.
This week saw the [9]Twitter "Official" label show up on the platform as a way to fix an arguably unbroken verification system, only to apparently disappear from many accounts after less than 24 hours.
The gray "Official" label was announced as a way to differentiate verified accounts from Twitter Blue subscribers, all of whom get the formerly exclusive blue check mark.
[10]I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value
[11]Musk sows chaos with Twitter Official policy
[12]Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter
[13]Twitter begs some staff to come back, says they were laid off accidentally
Meanwhile, the ability of nefarious individuals to spoof well-known personalities and brands using the new paid-for blue tick policy has reared its ugly head again.
Advertisers are unlikely to be assured at the [14]sight of a seemingly verified but spoof Nintendo account displaying a Mario brother giving the middle finger to twits, even if @nlntendoofus is now suspended.
[15]
Kissner has worked in security, privacy and engineering roles at Apple, Zoom and Google. Perhaps the latest week of Twitter chaos was one too many to bear. ®
Stop press
An internal legal memo leaked from within Twitter, and [16]reported by The Verge, has suggested Musk is willing to risk regulatory fines and more to recoup his multi-billion-dollar losses on Twitter by monetizing the site and app more and more. "Elon puts rockets into space, he's not afraid of the FTC," one of the Tesla tycoon's top aides is said to have told tweeps.
This would be a reference to agreements between Twitter and the US watchdog that the web biz has full measures and safeguards in place to preserve people's privacy after multiple prior lapses in data protection.
Get our [17]Tech Resources
[1] https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1590706305102381058
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/musk_sink_twitter/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/twitter_recalls_staff/
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/31/elon_musk_chief_twit_acts/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/official_twitter_musk_payment/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/twitter_verified_opinion/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/10/official_twitter_musk_payment/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/09/musk_sells_nearly_4_billion/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/twitter_recalls_staff/
[14] https://twitter.com/themattprov/status/1590476929294946304
[15] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y20uJ6eJug81Npca5NWVjgAAABE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[16] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
[17] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Socially distanced
Anonymous Coward
PSA: No one's arsed if you, and everyone else on here, doesn't use social networks. Or use cookies. Or use Javascript. etc.
ElRegioLPL
Sooner or later the banks could end up calling his loans in if he carries on alienating the staff and user base like this. In reality that's probably the best outcome for them given they can't sell the debt on at the minute.
Socially distanced
I see in other news that Musk has told staff that WFH is over. At least with half the staff gone the remainers can be in the office and socially distanced.
Me, I'll be staying Social Network distanced thank you very much.