If until a few days ago Twitter’s biggest problem was called Elon Musk, now the social network faces a potentially much bigger problem than the trial that will confront the company with the billionaire next October.
Peter Zatkoformer director of information security for the multinational and who, as we told you at MuySeguridad, was fired a few months ago along with Rinki Sethi (ex-CISO of the platform) has decided to pull the plug.
And it has done so in a complaint filed on July 6 in which it accuses the company of the worst corporate practices. In this sense, he has ensured that Twitter has publicly lied about their cybersecurity practices and has misled Elon Musk about the number of fake accounts that “inhabit” the social network, thus adding fuel to a fire that is becoming increasingly difficult to put out.
In his complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission Zatko claims that the company would have deceived its users by misrepresenting the way it fights SPAM and hackers, which would violate the agreement that Twitter would have reached in 2011 with the Federal Trade Commission and that specifically prohibited lying about its security measures. security and privacy.
In this sense, the former head of platform security ensures that both the CEO of the platform, Parag Agrawallike other managers, would have acted with “negligence and even complicity” with the hackers, an extreme that he wanted to demonstrate by providing numerous documents explaining that despite the company’s proclamations, in recent years there have been “few significant advances in basic security, integrity and privacy systems” and that the company “suffered from an abnormally high rate of bugs and security incidents”.
This being serious, the worst thing was for this expert, that the presentations that were made before the different regulatory bodies were “misleading, in the best of cases and that as a whole, in the company there were appalling deficiencies, negligence, deliberate ignorance and threats to national security and democracy.
In the latter case, Zatko strongly asserts that one or more Twitter employees would be working for foreign intelligence services. This would be the case of some employees whose hiring would have been required by governments such as India or Saudi Arabia and who would have access to internal and confidential company information.
