Twitter is one of the most important social media, though it continues to fall between the culprit and the bad. A few months ago a serious security problem was solved that would allow anyone – anyone – to post tweets from other accounts without any security check.
Fortunately, the vulnerability was present in Studio, a tool that allows publishers to better publish video content. Anand Prakash, a security researcher, almost immediately discovered this bug and verified it by sending tweets from a friend’s account – asking for permission, of course. Prakash has reported the vulnerability to Twitter, and Twitter has solved it in less than 24 hours.
Another vulnerability, which led to identical outcomes (posting tweets from other accounts without stealing login credentials) was discovered last February by another security researcher. Here too, Twitter acted quickly and solved the bug.
At a time when the President of the United States continually writes nonsensical rants on Twitter (from his personal account, not from the official presidency one, @POTUS), we imagine in how many ways a world war could break out due to a similar bug…