Twitter hired Mudge as the new head of security. “Looks like the cat is out of the bag.” This is how Peiter Zatko (better known as “Mudge” in the hacking universe) announced with a tweet that he has just been hired by Twitter.
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It is a key moment, as the platform suffered a massive hacking a few months ago, affecting accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West or those used by companies such as Apple and Uber.
Looks like the cat is out of the bag.
I’m very excited to be joining the executive team at Twitter!
I truly believe in the mission of (equitably) serving the public conversation.
I will do my best! https://t.co/ZQkhYTXLQZ
— Mudge (@dotMudge) November 16, 2020
Twitter has hired Mudge to become the new head of security for the social network. The famous hacker says: ” I’m very excited to be joining the executive team at Twitter!
“I truly believe in the mission (equally) of serving the public conversation.
I will do my best!”
Zatko’s career dates back to the 1990s when he simultaneously performed classified work for a U.S. government contractor and was one of the leaders of ‘Cult of the Dead Cow’ (cDc).
This hacker organization became well known, among other reasons, for releasing hacking tools for Windows, in order to encourage Microsoft to improve the security of its operating system.
“I don’t know if anyone can fix Twitter’s security, but he’d be at the top of my list”. These are the words of Dan Kaufman, who supervised Zatko at DARPA and now runs Google ATAP; Google’s hardware research and development lab.
It is clear that Zatko has a major challenge on his shoulders, and it is something that Alex Stamos (head of security at Facebook) made clear in an interview:
“The data breach this summer was an important reminder of how far Twitter needs to go in building some of the basic security functions necessary to run a service targeted by adversaries much more skilled than the teenagers arrested for that incident.”
Twitter hired Mudge as the new head of security, we wish him the best of luck.
