Twitter’s features of tweeting via SMSs from
your Smartphone has been turned off temporarily on Thursday, after its CEO’s Jack Dorsey account was hacked last
week. The feature is not being used most often but by the ability to tweet via
text some users still text and have that message posted to their account. The
Twitter has taken this step for working and improving because of the vulnerabilities
that need to be addressed by mobile carriers and our reliance on having a
linked phone number for two-factor authentication. Hackers posted a flurry of
rogue tweets, including racial slurs breaking into Twitter CEO’s account. The micro-blogging platform said that Dorsey’s
account became victim of ‘SIM swapping’ or ‘SIM jacking’ where a mobile number
is transferred to a new SIM card, which was secured later. The feature of
tweeting via SMS will soon be reactivated in market depending for reliable
communication, while working on our longer-term strategy for this feature. The
phone number associated with Dorsey was compromised due to a security oversight
by the mobile provider, which allows an unauthorized person to compose and send
tweets via text messages from the phone number.
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