Posts from The Twitter Blog: security

User security and national security surveillance reform

Thursday, June 5, 2014 | By Will Carty (@WRDCarty), Public Policy team [16:33 UTC]
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Our support for strengthening a federal bill to restore the confidence of Internet users domestically and around the world, while keeping citizens safe.Read more…

Keeping your Twitter account safe

Thursday, May 8, 2014 | By Mollie Vandor (@mollie), Product manager [18:40 UTC]
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Protect your account and restore access with greater ease: introducing a streamlined password reset experience and improved detection of suspicious logins.Read more…

SMS follow issue (and fix) for protected accounts

Sunday, March 9, 2014 | By Bob Lord (@boblord), Director, Information Security [13:52 UTC]
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We were alerted to and fixed a bug in our system that, for 94,287 protected accounts under rare circumstances, allowed non-approved followers to receive protected tweets via SMS or push notifications since November 2013. As part of the bug fix, we’ve removed all of these unapproved follows, and taken steps to protect against this kind of bug in the future.Read more…

Improvements to login verification, photos and more

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | By jimio (@jimio), Product Security [18:01 UTC]
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Today’s Twitter for iOS and Android updates let you enroll in login verification and approve login requests directly from your mobile app. Now, in addition to the SMS-based login verification that we released in May, you can use login verification without relying on text messages.Read more…

Getting started with login verification

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | By jimio (@jimio), Product Security Team [15:14 UTC]
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Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.Read more…