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After Elon Musk's much debated attempt at changing the Twitter accounts ' verification system to a paid two-tier model, the CEO has decided to revert to the original gray check mark for verified accounts . Musk made the announcement yesterday in a tweet, citing too many "corrupt legacy Blue 'verification' check marks" as the reason for removing them. Until yesterday, Twitter's blue check marks could be purchased for $7.99/month, leading users to set up fake accounts impersonating brands and people. Read  AMD launches data center CPU 'Genoa', taps Google, Microsoft as customers Just this week, Twitter product lead, Esther Crawford, had said the gray check s would return for “government and commercial entities to begin with”. Coca-Cola, Twitter, Wired, and Ars Technica are some of the brands that have regained their gray check marks on the social platform. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-reactivates-gray-check-...

Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter will soon enable organizations to identify twitter accounts associated with them as the new Twitter owner continues to find ways to limit fake accounts on the platform. "Rolling out soon," Musk in a tweet on Sunday said. "Twitter will enable organizations to identify which other Twitter accounts are actually associated with them." The social media platform paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the "official" badge to some users of the social media platform. Fake accounts purporting to be big brands have popped up with the blue check since the new roll-out, including Musk's Tesla and SpaceX, as well as Roblox, Nestle, and Lockheed Martin. Musk in a tweet yesterday said that Twitter Blue will probably "come back end of next week". Twitter Inc...

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts , owner Elon Musk said on Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year. The block function on X allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them. "Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs," Musk said in a post on the platform, referring to direct messages. He said X would retain the mute function, which screens a user from seeing specified accounts but, unlike blocking, does not alert the other account to the action. The billionaire owner has described himself as a free speech absolutist, but some critics have said his approach is irresponsible. Researchers have found an increase in hate speech and antisemitic content on the platform since he took over, and some governments have accused the company of not doing enough to moderate its content. ...

Thousands of Australians are among the five million people whose personal data has been stolen by cyber criminals in the last five years, a new study has found. Cyber crooks were able to use bots to steal 26.6 million usernames and passwords since 2018, with the sensitive data of 10,000 Australians impacted, according to the NordVPN study. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How to safely store and manage your passwords. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Among the logins were details for 720,000 Google accounts , 654,000 Microsoft profiles and 647,000 Facebook logins , which are then sold on a bot market for an average price of $6 each. The study, which analysed three major bot markets — Genesis, the Russian market and 2Easy — also found Netflix, Paypal, Amazon, Instagram and Apple Store logins listed for sale. Experts say criminals use data-harvesting bot malware that steals logins together with cookies and device configuration information — the combination of which he...

US wireless carrier T-Mobile said on Thursday it was investigating a data breach involving 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts and that it expected to incur significant costs related to the incident. The company said it identified malicious activity on Jan 5 and contained it within a day, adding that no sensitive data such as financial information was compromised. However, some basic customer information was obtained, such as name, billing address, email and phone number, T-Mobile said. "Our investigation is still ongoing, but the malicious activity appears to be fully contained at this time, and there is currently no evidence that the bad actor was able to breach or compromise our systems or our network," the company said, adding it had begun notifying impacted customers. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has also opened an investigation into the company's data breach incident, the Wall Street Journal reported on T...