Twitter settles with FTC over celebrity pisálků-register account

Twitter has been settled with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a complaint that it failed to maintain the privacy of the users quite well, the lack of the two successful attacks against micro blogs network in 2009.

The settlement means that Twitter will be obliged to establish more stringent information security policy-which is independently audited on Twitter at the expense of, every two years. Micro blogs Web site have also agreed to guarantee that mislead consumers about the "extent to which protects the security, privacy and the confidentiality of private information.

Breach of the agreement, concluded last Friday, the State of Twitter until 16 thousand dollars apiece.

The agreement draws a line under the FTC'S complaint over the brace violations from January to May 2009 that hackers gain administrative control of Twitter. The hackers were able to send messages under a false name, as well as snoop in the privacy settings of the users, the most prominent.

The hackers were able to take a prominent Twitter accounts – including those that manage Barack Obama and Britney Spears--and cheering as the result of safety deficiencies in Twitter back in January 2009. A simple password that the attack was used to penetrate into the Twitter channels, before falsely trip Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly as gay and protichudnou special admission from the spear, her vagina that four feet wide "with razor sharp teeth".

Second, a separate hack at the end of April enabled the hackers to spy on the account settings of Twitterati. Breach of the hamster found that Ashton Kutcher and pop star Lily Allen Rose blocked a celebrity gossip indicates Perez Hilton, for example. Barack Obama blocked 96 Twitter users at the time, according to the screenshots on the French blog hack. ®

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