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🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | News in a CNN exclusive. A potentially explosive whistleblower report that says security vulnerabilities |
0:07.8 | of Twitter pose a threat to national security and democracy. That disclosure obtained by CNN |
0:14.7 | and the Washington Post comes from Twitter's former head of security. Peter Zachos claims |
0:20.4 | were sent last month to Congress in several federal agencies. |
0:24.4 | In the 200 page disclosure, Zachos portrays a chaotic reckless environment at a mismanaged |
0:30.8 | company that allows too many staffers access to central controls and sensitive information |
0:36.4 | without adequate oversight. It's not just a story about recklessness. Zachos also alleges that some |
0:41.6 | of the companies senior most executives try to cover up Twitter's vulnerabilities. CNN's Donio |
0:47.5 | Sullivan is here with the exclusive details and Donnie, this is quite explosive. That's right, |
0:53.2 | Caitlin. This whistleblower disclosure is in the hands today of multiple US government, |
0:59.2 | low enforcement agencies, and today for the first time that whistleblower is speaking out. |
1:08.6 | Ready? Yes. Why are you coming forward? All my life, I've been about finding places where I can |
1:15.8 | go and make a difference. This is Peter Zachos. Until January of this year, he was head of security |
1:22.0 | at Twitter, but now he's a whistleblower. And he says Twitter's security problems are so grave |
1:28.0 | they are a risk to national security and democracy. I think Twitter is a critical resource to the |
1:33.5 | entire world. I think it's an extremely important platform. He's handed over information about |
1:37.5 | the company to US law enforcement agencies, including the SEC, FTC and the Department of Justice. |
1:47.3 | Zachos is better known in the hacking world by his nickname Mudge. He's been a renowned |
1:51.8 | cybersecurity expert for decades. His roots aren't hacking, figuring out how computers and software |
1:58.1 | work. That expertise might be why Jack Dorsey then CEO of Twitter hired Zachos after the company |
2:04.3 | was hit by a massive attack in 2020 when hackers took over the accounts of some of the world's |
2:09.8 | most famous people. Mudge was one of the top five or six executives at the company. Well, |
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