Are you updating your tweets by SMS? Wait you are vulnerable!

Community - Messengers, Security, Spyware - Security Mahalakshmi Kabilan

Anyone could tweet in your name by just knowing your mobile number which is associated with the Twitter account!.And you would know and never will be alerted too!

Seems very straight forward isn’t it? A team of security researchers have discovered this security hole.

Same was found with sites like Facebook and Venmo but seems like the issues were resolved after disclosing to their respective security teams.

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Twitter was notified of  the spoofing, but has yet to roll out a fix. In the meantime, the researchers suggest that users who use the Tweet-by-SMS function either enable PIN codes—a service only available in the US—or to not use the feature at all.