Twitter has hired legendary hacker Peiter "Mudge" Zatko as head of security.
Under the newly created role, Mudge will take responsibility for everything from incident response to ensuring the "integrity" of the platform. Speaking to CNBC, he described his remit as including "information security, site integrity, physical security, platform integrity – which starts to touch on abuse and manipulation of the platform – and engineering."
Mudge will report directly to CEO Jack Dorsey, who also heads payments biz Square, and will take over the helm after a 45-to-60-day review.
The hire comes mere months after a major security incident in which unauthorised third parties accessed the Twitter accounts of 1 ..
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