zatko is known by the hacker name mudge. he was fired by twitter in january of this year after working there for a little over two years. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this meeting of the senate judiciary committee will come to order. in 2006, the new social networking platform marked its debut when jack dorsey posted a message that he was just setting up my twitter. at the time dorsey's startup which allowed users to share short messages was a novelty but in the coming years it would become increasingly a source of news and social discourse as it gathered millions of users around the world. twitter now plays an outsized role in politics, culture and even democracy itself. as twitter has grown, so the risk posed by bad actors looking to exploit its opportunities in the data it holds. in july 2020, two teenagers hacked into the accounts of twitter employees gaining access to a number of high-profile accounts including now president biden and former president obama. those two teenagers then sent a seri

could there be anyone more important than mudge i mean, mudge, i'm not talking sludge, i'm talking mudge. he will go forward he will do this. we'll forget it in about 48 hours, which is a little bit shorter than meta verse when we have whistle-blower there. it's not relevant. you know what, david, maybe all of this will end when elon musk gets in there while he's launching rockets and also doing something with cars. this is probably something he can really focus on, too what do you think? >> it could be it could be. he's going to have to take a little time to get to pose very soon i think it's scheduled for quite soon. >> can we get there, david have you ever been >> he'll want to settle before he gets to pose. have you ever been deposed you know at the beginning of the deposition carl they ask you to say where you live, give your name will musk do that? will he answer that pedestrian stuff? will he yawn what will he do if he's faced with the same thing that 340 million other people have to do? i can't believe he's -- i think he's going to give his addresses and then the deposition is go

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twitter, for its part, said that mudge, the whistleblower is exaggerating the issue that it fixed a lotfor a response on the alleged chinese spy at the company. >> to be clear, is he saying that the foreign countries, kl china included, do they have a sleeper and they could take over anyone's account. >> what he said a few minutes ago that the access in twitter so to broad that foreign intelligence agencies would not be doing their job right if they weren't getting people into this company. trying to access these accounts anz access to all sorts of information. >> remarkable revelations. donie o'sullivan, thank you so much for covering. >> >>> king charles and the queen consort are in belfast, northern ireland, leading the prayer service at st. ann's cathedral. those live pictures of them leaving the service in honor of the late queen elizabeth ii. they'll soon head back to london where the queen's coffin is about to make a final trip to buckingham palace. our live coverage continues on this throughout the day. >>> thank you so much for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow morni

peter zatko, the name of the twitter whistle-blower here, goes by on the on line handle, mudge.akers about his experience at the company on the very same day twitter shareholders voted to approve elon musk 43 billion-dollar take over as musk is trying to get out of the deal. he said the executives prioritized profits over security, so much so they don't even know what data they have. in terms of a foreign agent actually infiltrating the company, there is this. >> i'm reminded of one conversation with an executive when i said, i am confident that we have a foreign agent and their response was, well, since we already have one what does it matter if we have more. let's keep growing the office. reporter: senator lindsey graham says it is time to up our game in this country saying the testimony from "mudge" tells him the regulatory environment at this point is insufficient. meantime the saga between elon musk and twitter, that's not over either. the two sides will fight it out in court next month. liz? elizabeth: always great reporting and journalism from connell mcshane. thank you s

we have mudge testifying in front of congress right now. attention on security, broadly, is never a bad thing i wonder how much of that big picture ends up affecting you positively or negatively. >> as i said, the big picture stuff is still very nascent, very early in my mind. because we live this every day i wake up in the morning and watch your channel you guys live this every day somehow we feel this need for urgent action. that's kind of not happening out there. companies are still on their transformation, people are doing their projects are they going to ask for a better price most likely. are they going to say i'm canceling everything haven't seen it yet. i am not suggesting it is not going to happen. i don't have a crystal ball. my job is to keep the on track, keep it prepared get our teams out there hunting for more business. >> part of that right now you're being opportunistic in hiring, is that right? >> yes we're not -- we have not announced we're not hiring people, not announcing we're tightening our belt just making sure we dri

. >> thank you mister zatko, thank you mudge for coming forward. this is yet another eye-opening moment for our public, for our nation and for this committee. we know social media and new communications technologies have empowered people across the world to connect and share information at an unprecedented scale but we also know concentrating all this information, all these resources and a few hands comes with great risk. so your whistleblower complaint contains really striking allegations which shed light on several key realities and i wanted to focus on those. the first as you stated in a number of exchanges with my colleagues you said the public lacks any credible way to assess whether and how major platforms and technology companies are protecting or prioritizing user privacy. and i want to talk for a bit about the bill that i got that senator klobuchar mentioned that would help strengthen some of that transparency and the second which i'll get tolater is these platforms are a target for foreign actors . something where the subcommittee eye car

peiter "mudge" zatko told lawmakers that china and india had agents working inside twitter and that the company's security protocols were inadequate. >> what i discovered was that this enormously influential company was over a decade behind industry security standards. the company's cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exultation, causing real harm to real people. and when an influential media platform can be compromised by teenagers, thieves, and spies and the company creates secretive problems on their own, this is a big deal for all of us. amy: the right-wing conspiracy theorist alex jones is on trial again, this time in connecticut, for claiming the 2012 sandy hook mass shooting was a hoax. last a month, a jury in texas ordered jones to pay nearly $50 million to a sandy hook family. now a jury is hearing a case brought by 13 family members of victims and an fbi agent who accused jones of defamation. and former independent counsel ken starr has died at the age of 76. in the 1990's, the right-wing judge headed an investigation of president bill clinton that led to clinton's im

you don't think a few of them are coming from places who shouldn't be there chris mudge but where targeting the red hat saying america needs to be great a bit again. that's the enemy. he'll be happy to tell you what his beliefs are but he's the guy you have to watch out for? that's the problem. we get hit with something, then, you know... [applause] >> gutfeld: it's also like this ever-expanding target. let's say the target is trump and the people who work with trump, if you're friends with them, if you ever talk to somebody, they could call you and say we have a phone call with you and somebody else. that's the game. see one end up working for trump or anybody in the future because you'll be too terrified. >> also the expansion of language. they're doing it with racism and terrorism. the words just lose their meaning. we actually miss the real ones as a result. >> gutfeld: scooby doo fans put velma on a leash. that's next. ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ you're never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your discover card. (swords clashing) -had enough? -no... arthritis. here. aspercreme a

. >> so twitter whistle-blower peiter mudge zatko testified on tuesday laying out his allegations ofilures at the company. the former head of security revealing its weak defenses against hackers and disturbing foreign influencers. he said the company was a decade behind industry security standards, had safety lapses and misled the public. what are the legal and security ramifications of his testimony? >> the fact is that twitter security system is a clown show right now. they are woefully behind the times. they have completely uninstrumented their technology. they don't know who's looking at it. that means engineers have unrestricted access to look at user accounts and private user data. email addresses, phone numbers, i.p. addresses which can give locations. they aren't even aware there are foreign national agents on twitter's payroll from china and india. the laptops aren't secured. what that means is for any political dissidents while operating on twitter, they could be at risk of discovery by these authorities that might look to arrest or harass them. the fact that twitter's secu

he goes by the handle mudge.t unfortunately there have been too many instances where too many people had access to basic information. >> senator, do you have any questions about the credibility of this witness given the various firings, payments, and other things that have been taking place and the backdrop of this lawsuit as well >> well, i don't know this field with any great expertise but i take a look at his resume and the fact that when twitter got caught in one of the most outrageous hacking incidents two years ago they called on him to come to the rescue he boasts of a reputation in the industry, which is pretty substantial and with government agencies and the fact that they chose him is sort of a tribute to his expertise the fact that he fell out of favor at twitter is going to be subject to a lot of speculation, but certainly his resume is one that is impressive you call him in the most delicate situations, he must know a lot and must have a record to prove it. >> the reason i ask about the credibility i

zatko, thank you for joining us, mudge, thank you for joining us. and i'd like to ask you in terms of the corporate incentives at the top of the company. something like pushing patches and security updates to employee devices, cyber hygiene is not easy about you that's a relatively low cost way to mitigate a lot of risk and there is significant risk, reputational risk, financial risk. so, why, based upon your experience working within twitter's corporate leadership, would the company not have elected to take that step, to mitigate risk in that relatively low cost way or other steps like that? >> i didn't see any financial incentives at the top levels that would then give prioritization to such efforts, in fact, i saw incentives counter to that, and combined with a culture where the company needs a crisis to operate, and is driven by crises. those didn't afford time or focus from what i saw to do the basics. >> and what are the incentives against something like patching? >> so, it was just-- i'll give you an example. one. things i was surprised while

>> yes, the twitter whistleblower peter zach co, better known as mudge we broke that story on "new day the platform but also importantly about the number of bots. he has said that twitter has lied to elon musk about how many bots are on the platform. the timing of him going public was a bit fortuitous for musk. we asked the whistleblower about the timing. have a listen. >> this isn't about one person. this is about something that everybody should care about with large companies, which is, you know, the honesty and the truthfulness of the data that's being presented publicly represented, national security implications and whether users can trust their data with these organizations. >> so that's peter zakko who is by all accounts a credible whistleblower, he is a legend in the cybersecurity community. he has also now been deposed in this as has former ceo of twitter jack dorsey. it's all kicking off in three weeks' time in delaware is the trial, it's expected to last a week. we will be down there covering it every step of the way. if you have recommendations for restaurants in wilmington

live report from across the pond on today's funeral procee twitter whistleblower peter zatko known as mudge testified before congress today at his bombshell allegations against the social media company. he claims that twitter. >> is fully aware of the security flaws which he says puts millions of users at risk. reporter anna wiernicki is in washington with the latest. >> twitter's former head of security peter zatko told lawmakers that for years the social media company prioritized profit over protecting its users. they don't know what data they have, where it lives or where it came from. and so unsurprisingly, they can't protected. sacco was fired from twitter earlier this year for what they called, quote, ineffective leadership and poor performance. >> then last month is filed a whistleblower complaint with the ftc complaining that the company ignored major security flaws. twitter doesn't just have access to your tweets and mail address email address. >> they also the next system. all of the data necessary to directly access your device and even pinpoint your exact location that go told l

in the hacker community, they know him just as mudge he was twitter's head of security until the company fired him earlier this year. zatko's testimony went beyond what he alleged in the complaint last month to the securities and exchange commission and other regulators he claims twitter's leadership is misleading the public, misleading lawmakers, and misleading regulators. and even its own board of directors. >> what i discovered when i joined twitter was that this enormously influential company was over a decade behind industry security standards. the company's cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exploitation, causing real harm to real people >> hearing that testimony, was elon musk. today he tweeted this popcorn he m emoji. for context, of course, musk is locked in a legal battle with twitter. trying to pull out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. musk claims twitter didn't give him all the data he requested, about fake and spam accounts on the platform just last week a delaware judge overseeing the case ruled that musk can include new evidence related to z

as an example, this person came to me and said, "mudge, is this a viable threat? do i need to be worried? who is this person?" it took me 30 minutes to reach out to an employee and say what do we know about this person. and only took that person 10 minutes to get back to me and said here is who they are complicit the address where they live, this is where they are physically at this moment. they are on their phone, we know their phone number. we know the other accounts they have tried to set up on the system and hide. and we know who they are on the other social-media platforms as well. sen. durbin: so unbeknownst to a tort or account user,there is---twitter account user, there is accessed information far beyond what you have disclosed that may be found. you said at one point that twitter has about 20 percent of its vast trove of data registered and managed, meaning the company is incapable of securing sensitive information it collects. that is a pretty stark statement, and suggests a warning to users is that literally anything you disclose or use the account for

a big picture, what mudge is telling me? much data in too many systems. you can think of it this way which is it doesn't matter who has keys. >> mudge says that led to concern, chinese government would be able to collect data on users. then he was told nothing could be done because twitter didn't want to lose the revenue stream with companies advertising on its platform in terms of actual foreign agent infiltrating the company. there is this. >> i'm reminded of one conversation with an executive when i said i am confident the have a foreign agent and the response is since we have one what does it matter if we have more, let's keep growing the office. >> reporter: twitter app stock prices down for the rest of a market. we have more on this in the days and weeks and months to come. we should have more results on a shareholder vote this afternoon and elon musk and twitter will go to battle. people wonder if he was watching today's hearing, we noticed a tweet musk put out in the last hour, it is a popcorn emoji on his twitter ac

he is more commonly known as mudge. you are here pursuant to a subpoena, not because you were opposed to appearing before the committee but the public can hear the details of your disclosure. you have alleged a number of flaws and weaknesses within twitter, flaws that may be a direct threat to twitter of users and america's national security. the story began in 2011 when the f.t.c. concluded that twitter was playing fast and loose with user data and found that twitter deceived customers and failed to safeguard their personal information. the company was ordered by the f.t.c., to quote, protect the security, privacy and confidentiality and integrity of user data but you have claimed those changes have never been made and you have alleged that compared to other technology companies, they remain wopfully deficient and thousands of employees have extraordinary access to sensitive information and little oversight how that information is assessed. some twitter users may be asking, what's the big deal. when you sign up for twi

he is also known by the hacker name mudge. he was fired after working there for a little more than two years. witter place in outsize role in politics, and even culture itself. in july 2020, two teenagers hacked into the accounts of twitter employees, gaining access to a number of high profile accounts, including now president biden and former president obama. those teenagers scammed twitter users out of more than $100,000 in bitcoin. in response, that then ceo of twitter turned to a trusted name in the world of cybersecurity to lead an overhaul of twitter security practices. we want to take you to live coverage to the hearing. >> their new ceo of this past january. last month, this individual released a whistleblower disclosure detailing alarming allegations about twitter security practices. without objection, his disclosure will be entered into the record. the name is peter. thank you for joining us. you are here to serve a subpoena, so that the public can hear the details of your disclosure. you've alleged a number of secur

zatko is known by the hacker name mudge. he was fired by twitter in january of this year after working there for a little over two years.

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