Twitter and New Security "Dream Team?"

You heard it right...Twitter has been working hard on what some are referring to as a "security dream team." This is a pretty important step for a social media site to actually say that they care about the security of theirselves and users information (to an extent at least). With many social media sites practically "giving" away their users information to anyone who asks for it, Twitter is trying to take a different approach. They recently hired Charlie Miller, "famous for his hacks on the iPhone and MacBook Air, finding hols in iOS and devising ways to hijak Android phone with NFS. (Mills, 2012)"

So now, not only the President but also social media sites are starting to take their cyber data seriously. I think since the Web 2.0 boom, when these technologies literally appeared out of thin air, no one really gave a second thought/had time to think about what implications this new technology would have against safeguarding cyber data. Now that these technologies have been around for a while and quite a few malicious attacks have been made, we are discovering that we really need to step up the way we protect information that is private and important to our lives. It's good to see that some social media sites are starting to implement security features, although not by leaps and bounds. Baby steps are a sign of change.


Reference:

Mills, E. (2012, 09 14). Twitter hires security expert charlie miller. Retrieved from http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57511803-83/twitter-hires-security-expert-charlie-miller/