Mali crisis deepens as President Keita resigns, dissolves parliament after detention by military
Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests…
Twitter expresses interest in buying TikTok’s U.S. operations
Twitter Inc has approached TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as experts…
Republican senators back plan to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations
Several Republican senators on Sunday backed a plan by China’s ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban…
17-year-old charged for masterminding epic Twitter hack
Criminal charges were filed on Friday against the suspected teenage mastermind of an epic Twitter hack and two others who allegedly helped hijack celebrity accounts to swindle people out of…
Twitter says spear-phishing attack on employees led to breach
Twitter Inc, whose internal systems were breached about two weeks ago, said on Thursday the incident targeted a small number of employees through a phone “spear-phishing” attack. The U.S. microblogging…
American flag lowered as China takes over U.S. consulate in Chengdu
China took over the premises of the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Monday, after ordering the facility to be vacated in retaliation for China’s ouster last…
More than 1,000 Twitter employees had ability to aid hack of accounts – Reuters
More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two…
Twitter confirms about 130 accounts targeted in cyber attack this week
Twitter Inc disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were…
Experts concerned about Twitter’s security as company confirms hackers took control of employee credentials to hijack accounts
The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security and resilience…
EU says Facebook, Twitter, Google should report monthly on fake news fight
Facebook, Google and Twitter should provide monthly reports on their fight against disinformation, two senior EU officials said on Wednesday as they called out Russia and China for their…