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Roundup This week ended with a bang, thanks to some Twitter hackers.
An (as yet) unknown group took over the account of Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey for several hours on Friday, filling the billionaire's feed with incoherent and occasionally profane rants.
Twitter says it is investigating what happened, but it appears the account was taken over via third-party service Cloudhopper, an app that allows users to send out Tweets via SMS messages. In that case, the hackers could have performed a SIM swap attack - convincing Dorsey's phone carrier to assign his number to a different device - and then moved in.
According to security blogger Brian Krebs, the hackers may ..
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