{"id":48409,"date":"2022-09-12T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/33829\/Twitter-Whistleblower-What-Questions-Will-Peiter-Zatko-Face-From-Lawmakers.html"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:31:29","slug":"twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/twitter-whistleblower-what-questions-will-peiter-zatko-face-from-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Whistleblower: What Questions Will Peiter Zatko Face From Lawmakers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter\u2019s former head of security, Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko, will appear in front of lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. He is expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings at the social media platform, having outlined a litany of concerns in a whistleblower complaint<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

The former hacker, widely respected in his field as an information security specialist, joined Twitter<\/a> on 16 November 2020 and was fired on 19 January 2022. His complaint levels allegations of incompetence and fraud at Twitter, saying that he uncovered \u201cextreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter in every area of his mandate\u201d, including weak controls of employee access to user data and interference by foreign governments.<\/p>\n

The senate judiciary committee<\/a> hearing is not directly for the benefit of Elon Musk, who is trying to pull out of a $44bn (\u00a338bn) deal to buy Twitter and has been given permission to include Zatko\u2019s revelations as another reason for walking away. Musk\u2019s lawyers interviewed Zatko on 9 September. But if Zatko\u2019s actions are going to have an immediate impact, it will be at a trial in Delaware on 17 October, where Twitter is attempting to force Musk to buy the company under terms he agreed in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some questions that Zatko might face on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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What is the scale of the information security problems at Twitter?<\/h2>\n

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This is a catch-all question that is likely to be broken down into multiple parts in terms of lawmaker questions, given the amount of detail in the allegations contained within Zatko\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n

He is likely to be asked about several claims, including that Twitter mishandled user email addresses and phone numbers, that more than 50% of its 500,000 data centre servers are running software that is out of date or has other known security problems, and that employees were found to be installing spyware on their work computers at the request of external organisations.<\/p>\n

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How significant is foreign state intervention in Twitter?<\/h2>\n

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Zatko\u2019s complaint says he was aware of \u201cmultiple episodes\u201d of Twitter being penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies or being complicit in threat to democracies. The examples used were the Indian government forced Twitter to hire government agents who had access to user data and executives allowed the platform to become dependent on revenue coming from Chinese \u201centities\u201d that then might be able to access information on users in China who had circumvented a block. The complaint adds that Twitter received \u201cspecific information from a US government source that one or more particular company employees were working on behalf of another particular foreign intelligence agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers will want to know if the platform\u2019s output, which plays a highly influential role in politics and media in multiple countries, could be manipulated as a consequence.<\/p>\n

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How significant is Twitter\u2019s bot problem?<\/h2>\n

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In a section of the complaint titled \u201clying about bots to Elon Musk\u201d, Zatko raises questions over Twitter\u2019s approach on bots<\/a>, essentially arguing that the company does not have a handle on the problem. Lawmakers are expected to ask Zatko what is the true scale of the problem and how it should be tackled.<\/p>\n

Musk cited the prevalence of bot accounts on Twitter \u2013 which are not operated by humans and are designed to disrupt and manipulate the experience of users \u2013 as a key reason for declaring his withdrawal from the takeover.<\/p>\n

In his complaint, Zatko says Parag Agrawal, the Twitter chief executive, lied when he tweeted that Twitter execs were \u201cincentivised to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Tesla chief executive claims that Twitter has deliberately miscounted the number of bots on the platform. The company has consistently said that the number of bots on its platforms is less than 5% of its monetisable daily active users (mDAU \u2013 accounts that can see adverts and are therefore commercially valuable to the company).<\/p>\n

Zatko says there are many millions of active accounts that are not considered mDAU but are part of the average user\u2019s experience on the platform, which makes for a poor quality experience. It does not quite fit Musk\u2019s argument, which is that Twitter deliberately underplays the number of bots among its mDAUs. Zatko says its does not include them in its mDAU total, but just doesn\u2019t get rid of them entirely.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Zatko\u2019s filing claims that management had no appetite to properly measure bot accounts because they were concerned that \u201cif accurate measurements ever became public, it would harm the image and valuation of the company\u201d. This could at least be material for a shareholder lawsuit and, as a whole, Zatko argues vociferously that Twitter cannot cope with bots because it uses \u201coutdated\u201d programs and \u201cunderstaffed\u201d monitoring teams.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg><\/span>Elon Musk claims Twitter deliberately underplays the number of bots.<\/span> Photograph: Jim Watson\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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How credible are you as a witness?<\/h2>\n

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Twitter has hit back at Zatko\u2019s allegations, saying that he was fired by Agrawal for \u201cineffective leadership and poor performance\u201d. Referring to his claims, the company added: \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context. Mr Zatko\u2019s allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Zatko has considerable pedigree, having made his name as an ethical hacker who helped organisations identify flaws in their systems before going on to work in senior positions at Google, the payments firm Stripe and the US Department of Defense. This long track record, and a reputation for professional rigour, led the then Twitter chief executive, Jack Dorsey, to hire him.<\/p>\n

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Is there a senior leadership problem at Twitter?<\/h2>\n

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Zatko\u2019s complaint is scathing about management standards at the company. Zatko\u2019s allegations against Agrawal include the chief executive instructing him in December 2021 to provide documents on information security to the risk committee of Twitter\u2019s board of directors that Agrawal knew were \u201cfalse and misleading\u201d. The complaint says that Twitter\u2019s security problems had \u201cdeveloped under Agrawal\u2019s watch\u201d. The complaint raises concerns about the standard of leadership in general, pointing to an \u201cextremely disengaged\u201d Dorsey \u2013 who stepped down<\/a> last year \u2013 who spoke a total of 50 words to Zatko in phone conversations over a 12-month period.<\/p>\n

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Has Twitter misled investors?<\/h2>\n

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Zatko\u2019s complaint says: \u201cFor years, across many public statements and SEC filings, Twitter has made material misrepresentations and omissions, and engaged in acts and practices operating as deceit upon its users and shareholders, regarding security, privacy and integrity.\u201d Twitter disputes this. In terms of the complaint\u2019s impact on the Musk takeover, Brian Quinn, a professor at Boston College Law School, says: \u201cTwitter will likely respond that while they did not disclose that a disgruntled employee had made complaints about their security, they did disclose that data security and privacy issues were risks to the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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