Cyber Security

Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts.

Threats to cyber security has been a topic of rising tensions between the U.S. and China

One simple attack and the business that they've worked so hard to build could be shuttered forever.

Twitter said attackers “manipulated a small number of employees” to gain access to the internal support tools used in the hack.

Countless prominent websites and services were knocked offline for an extended period.

In 2020 thieves are going after more than just tax refunds.

Although it hasn’t found success as a mainstream, transactional currency, it is increasingly used in scams. Purporting to be former President Obama, Bill Gates and Kanye West, hackers steered Twitter followers to send $1,000 in bitcoin, promising $2,000 in return. They drew more than $100,000 before the scam was shut down.

Scam Shield is the first Un-Carrier initiative being taken by the company since merging with former competitor Sprint, whose retail stores will officially begin operating under the T-Mobile brand nationwide starting August 2. 

The White House has been in "constant contact" with Twitter over the past 18 hours to ensure the president's account is secure, according to Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. 

The FBI and the N.Y. Department of Financial Services have opened investigations into a widespread hack of popular Twitter accounts of public figures and companies.