In the upcoming United States election, twitter has automatically activated extra account protection for politicians. Election-related accounts will have to make an immediate change to improve their security a special selection group. Twitter beefs up security for United States election candidates.
In the month of June Twitter was the victim of the most significant hacks of a social network in history. Twitter said that it had learned from the experience of past incidents and also they were concentrated on upcoming election security.
Twitter said that in the coming weeks, a much wider range of high-profile election-related accounts would be adding proactive internal security safeguards.
They also include the significant news outlets and political journalists, United State governors and secretaries of state, the executive branch including the president and vice president, Presidential campaigns, political parties and candidates, Congress the House of Representatives, and the Senate.
The June hack saw some of the world’s most notable celebrities such as Bill Gates, Joe Biden, and Kanye West have their accounts seized by the attacker to tweet an apparently simple Bit-coin scam.
But one of Twitter’s most-followed accounts United State President Donald Trump was unaffected. It later emerged that this was because the president’s account had extra security protections in place internally. This week those accounts will start receiving in-app notifications of immediate changes on the user’s side.
Under the new rules, they will need to use a strong password – those that do not meet Twitter’s standards will be required to change it the next time they log in.
If they want to reset their password and they will also be encouraged but not required to enabling two-factor authentication.
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