On stage at the D11 conference in California, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took a question about the service's high-profile security problems, saying that the company takes the matter "super seriously," and that Twitter has "responsibility for high-authority accounts."
Twitter rolled out two-step authentication for accounts beginning on May 22nd — a long-awaited feature following a particularly nasty spell of hacks of organizations including the Associated Press, AFP, and The Guardian — but Costolo said today that the measure isn't enough. "We launched two factor authentication," Costolo said, "but two factor wouldn't stop some of these attacks. We've got a bunch of security people on it, and we're investing money."
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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4376704/twitter-dick-costolo-security-two-step
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