SwiftOnSecurity
SwiftOnSecurity is a pseudonymous computer security expert and influencer on Twitter who pretends to be Taylor Swift.[1] The name was chosen due to Taylor Swift’s extreme caution to digital security.[2] The account is frequently cited in news articles about computer security.[3][4]
In December 2019, SwiftOnSecurity tweeted about an issue in Atlassain software, regarding the usage of self-signed certificates. This turned out to be a security vulnerability and was assigned CVE-2019-15006.[5]
References
- ^ Conger, Kate (2019-09-05). "The Work Diary of Parisa Tabriz, Google's 'Security Princess'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ Hern, Alex (2019-01-29). "How Taylor Swift became a cybersecurity icon". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ "Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ "Google Busy Removing More Malicious Chrome Extensions from Web Store". threatpost.com. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ at 00:55, Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 5 Dec 2019. "Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter". www.theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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External Links
- twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity
- decentsecurity.com, the blog of SwiftOnSecurity