Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, went after the Parag Agrawal-led platform again on Thursday, after a top cybersecurity expert claimed that up to eight out of ten Twitter accounts are fake.
Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity firm F5, who spent more than 20 years with US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations, told The Australian that more than 80% of Twitter accounts are probably bots – a massive claim given that Twitter claims only 5% of its users are bots/spam.
"Sure sounds higher than 5%," Musk tweeted, tagging the news article.
"On a per-bot basis, this deal is incredible," he chuckled. Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, and the case is now in a US court over the presence of bots on the platform, with an open debate seeking answers from Agrawal. Both Musk and Twitter, according to Woods, a former CIA and FBI cybersecurity specialist, have underestimated the bot problem on the microblogging platform.
Musk is now attempting to buy more time from the court in order to begin the Twitter trial, which is scheduled to begin on October 17, citing the testimony of whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko.
On September 13, Zatko is scheduled to testify before the US Congress about allegations he made against the Agrawal-led microblogging platform.
According to the former Twitter security head, Twitter misled regulators about its security practises and the actual number of bot accounts.
Zatko has also received a subpoena from Musk's legal team to appear for a deposition in the ongoing Twitter-Musk lawsuit on September 9.
Cruse -
-
Data Breaches
1,134 views -
0 Comments -
0 Likes -
0 Reviews
Loading ... 
