he explained what motivated peiter zatco to file this whistleblower complaint.r zatco is an unusual person, one of the most famous actors in america and has pioneered and co—ordinated disclosure where security researchers find flaws in programmes and work with the vendors to establish fixes for the problems before going public. he led cyber security grantmaking in a company and done many interesting things and was brought in because there were so many breaches that twitter, embarrassing things, were a teenager would get a hold or tweet as someone like donald trump or elon musk. it was brought into fix that i was unable to fix it. he says he sees, he sees this complaint as a way of fixing twitter from the outside, either getting such attention putting on it and such pressure from regulators that they would be compelled to fix the problems he could not when he was there. joining me now is russ mould, investment director at aj bell. good morning. this wasjust good morning. this was just the news that twitter did not need right now, in the thick of a legal battle wi

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twitter say that peiter zatco was fired from the company and there are many inconsistencies with whatitter. a terrible day for them in san francisco and an excellent one for elon musk. james clayton, bbc news. we will have some analysis of that in the business coverage beginning in under 20 that in the business coverage beginning in under20 minutes time. polls have closed in the states of florida, new york state, and oklahoma, where voters have been deciding who will represent their party in the upcoming mid—term elections in november. 0ur north america correspondent, antony zurcher has been following the vote in florida and sent this report from miami. in his victory speech in florida, ron desantis told supporters it was time to put on the armour of law. if the republicans are getting warmed up republicans are getting warmed up and that was a message her time and time again on stage in front of republicans, that the battle is just getting started. they know that he is pivotal to efforts to take back the house of representatives, the us senate and set the stage for a presidential cont

wall street tuesday, dow 154 points, nasdaq down a fraction and s&p former twitter security chief peiter zatco claims there are massive gaps in the security plan required by federal trade no interest in or ability to count the number of spam accounts. several members of congress are calling for investigation and twitter calls his claims riddled with inaccuracies. warning owners of kias and suvs to waspark them outside and awa from homes after palisade and telluride vehicles were recalled citing risk of fire parked or driving with trailer hitch issue. no crashes or injuries but reported 25 fires or melting incidents. want to live longest? new data says head west. hawaii is number one according to cdc, combined average for men and women in the state 80.7 years old. washington state came in second. mississippi came in bottom of the list, life expectancy of 71.9 years old, followed by west virginia. that's cbs money watch for wednesday morning, i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. >>> watch "top gun: maverick" in comfort of your home, available as digital download. sixth highest grossing film in u

peiter zatco's whistle—blowing testimony, which has been given to the us authorities, could have seriousthe company. twitter says mr zatko's allegations are inaccurate and inconsistent. it says he was sacked in january for ineffective leadership and poor performance. our north america tech reporter, james clayton, has this assessment. twitter�*s ceo had a nickname for him, "mudge". this is a really senior person, and he is alleging all sorts of things going on at twitter. the key one for me is bots. he is saying that twitter deliberately undercounts how many bots it has. now, elon musk is trying to buy the company, or at least he was. he then pulled out, saying that twitter had done just that, undercounted the bots. now you have someone inside, the former head of security, saying exactly that. there is a court case in october, where twitter are going to try and force elon musk to try and buy the company. this is brilliant news for elon musk. he has literallyjust tweeted an emoji of a cartoon person whistling. a clear this is devastating for twitter. they want to force elon musk to buy th

twitter maintains that peiter zatco's allegations are false, exaggerated and out of date but this isalking about, is it? no, that's the issue, that's the really big issue. there are all sorts of mudslinging going on and they think he is a disgruntled former employee who got fired for cause, but if you look at the people know information security they know who it he is, his hacker name, but one. he testified to congress under his pseudonym along with others and a hacking group called the loft, fronting congress to say how terrible internet security was, saying that any one of them could take down the inside and half—an—hour if they really worked at it. so he is responsible for speaking truth to power, as they say. and he has had a top—secret clearance in the united states government. he founded or co—founded one of the first boutiques were hackers like himself would go into big companies and tell them what they were doing wrong and how to fix it. he is revered among long—time security people. so they are not taking well to the allegations, the they say he is just making it up but that

. >> reporter: explosive allegations from twitter whistleblower, inside this complaint peiter "mudge" zatco says there are extreme egregious deficiencies inside twitter for user privacy and digital security. he worked as twitter's head of security for two years before he was fired this past january. >> what he found inside this company was unlike anything he had seen elsewhere. >> reporter: john tye is zatco's attorney. does he still believe twitter users are still at risk? >> that's why he reluctantly decided to become a whistleblower, report details multiple respects that data and users are handled differently than twitter has said publicly. >> reporter: comes as the website is engaged in war with elon musk who pulled out of buying twitter over concerns of spambots on the cite. >> we never krcoordinatated wit his team. >> reporter: nikole killion, cbs news, washington. >>> why two atlanta officers won't face charges in shooting death of 27-year-old black man. >>> mysterious illness killing dozens of dogs in michigan. ♪♪ here goes nothing. hey greg. uhh...hello? it's me, your heart! really

inside this 84-page complaint obtained by cbs news, peiter "mudge" zatco says there are "extreme, egregiousiciencies" inside twitter when it comes to "user privacy, digital, and physical security." zatko worked as twitter's head of security for two years before he was fired this past january. >> what he found inside this company was unlike anything he'd seen elsewhere. >> reporter: john tye is zatko's attorney. does he still believe that twitter users are still at risk? p>> absolutely. and that's why he, reluctantly, has decided to beome a whistleblower. the complaint details multiple respects at which the data, and individual users, are handled differently than twitter has said publicly. >> reporter: this latest blow comes as the website is engaged in a war with elon musk, who pulled out of buying twitter over concerns about the number of spam bots on the site. >> there was no coordination. we've never communicated with elon musk or his team. >> reporter: twitter said zatko was fired for poor performance, and said the complaint was riddled with inaccuracies. nikole killion, cbs news, washi

peiter zatco's whistleblowing testimony — which has been given to the us authorities — could have seriousying things about security that, for example, many twitter employees hold personal information about users that they shouldn't have. but the really damaging accusations here are about bots, because what he alleges is that twitter has far more fake accounts and spam accounts than it acknowledges. and he also says that bonuses are paid handsomely to undercount those fake accounts. why does that matter? because that is exactly what elon musk alleges. he is trying to pull out of buying twitter, $44 billion worth of the company, and he alleges that bots are much higher than twitter has publicly stated. now you have the former head of security saying exactly the same thing. that is hugely damaging for twitter. twitter, however, say that peiter zatko was fired from the company and that there are many inconsistencies with what he has alleged. but clearly what this will do is damage twitter. so a terrible day for them here in san francisco and an excellent one for elon musk. the technology comp