{"id":28901,"date":"2020-09-18T20:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:57:26","slug":"twitter-to-bolster-account-security-ahead-of-the-u-s-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/twitter-to-bolster-account-security-ahead-of-the-u-s-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to bolster account security ahead of the U.S. presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter to step up security for some accounts ahead of the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter is focused on keeping high-profile accounts safe and secure during the US election.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, a group of Twitter accounts in the US will see this notification detailing some security measures we\u2019ll be requiring or strongly recommending going forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3FjRpZcmA9\">pic.twitter.com\/3FjRpZcmA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterGov\/status\/1306676875083698177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Additional measures include stronger passwords, protection against password resets, and two-factor authentication. The service will also update its internal systems to respond swiftly to suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Notifications about changes to security policy will be sent to some users. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>governors and U.S. Secretaries of State;<\/li>\n<li>members of the executive branch and Congress;<\/li>\n<li>political parties and candidates;<\/li>\n<li>major U.S. news agencies and political journalists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhile we require higher security for some accounts due to the peculiarities of the election period, this could be done by any Twitter user,\u201d the statement notes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, one of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s official Twitter accounts was hacked. They <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-breach-one-of-indias-prime-ministers-twitter-accounts\">posted<\/a> a series of tweets urging donations to the National Relief Fund in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this July, unknown hackers breached the Twitter accounts of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and other celebrities. At the time, posts appeared about a fake 5,000 BTC giveaway from Cryptoforhealth.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will boost security for some accounts ahead of the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,40,26],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-twitter","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28903,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions\/28903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}