Some popular Twitter accounts were hijacked briefly late last year by security firm Insinia to show the alleged flaws in the social media platform. Mike Godfrey, who runs the U.K.-based cybersecurity business, said that his team hijacked accounts to show how anyone who knows the phone number of a user can tweet from his or […]

Facebook found a bug in its network that affected over 6.8 million users by giving third-party applications access to private photos of users. After news of the Facebook bug went public, the Data Protection Commission of Ireland opened a statutory investigation into the tech company. Facebook is sloppy, prioritizing growth over others: Analyst Facebook said […]

On a visit to India late last year, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, held an informal, roundtable discussion with a group of Indian women activists, writers and journalists about their experiences using the micro-blogging site. One participant gave him a poster, which said “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy” and which became an online target almost as soon as […]