Twitter’s vice president of the designs department, Mike Davidson, who has remained in the position since 2012, might be resigning soon. Headlines escalated recently that some of the company’s user accounts might become victims of hacking; it even warned and guided users on how to protect themselves. Some hackers have managed to trace some of ISIS account through their IP addresses and it seems that those accounts are not from Saudi Arabia, but Britain.
Twitter Inc. might be losing a senior executive yet again; Mike Davidson made an announcement regarding his resignation on Monday. However, he might have to stay at the social media organization till February. Furthermore, he has plans to move back to where he used to live before joining the business, Seattle.
This is not exciting news for the business, as most of its business is well understood and known by Davidson. With his departure, there is no telling what is going to happen next, and no replacement has been decided yet. The reason for his resignation is not known. Davidson had impressive experience even before joining the company, as he had worked at Disney, NBC News and ESPN.
The social media network has lost many of its senior executives in the recent months and is now in search of a new chief marketing officer, head of corporate development, and finally a new vice president of the design department. The business has faced many changes in the recent past and this will not be a problem for it anymore.
The social media site sent out a warning to a small group of users to stay aware of any cyber-attack that would put their personal data, phone number, and IP addresses at risk. Other social media companies followed its footsteps and made the same warning to their customers just to be on the safe side. Some hackers have managed to find the location of some ISIS user accounts with help of achieving their IP addresses. Earlier, these hackers claimed that Twitter had numerous terrorist supporting accounts.
The hackers who have unveiled the location of the ISIS accounts are a group of four people who go by the name of VandaSec. Three accounts have been traced to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP); these IP addresses at first seemed from Saudi Arabia but after detailed inspections, they have been traced back to London where the British Intelligence Services is located.
VandaSec’s efforts have finally given some closure, and it is now believed that someone who works at DWP might be involved in running these despicable ISIS accounts. After Mirror Online traced the IP addresses, it indicated to transactions between Saudi Arab and London.
The British Government sells many IP addresses of Saudi Arab organizations, such as Saudi Telecom and many others. Hence, the locations traced can still not lead to the conclusion that the accounts are actually from DWP, who refused owning any of these IPs’. The British government has no right or control over the IPs that have already been sold to different firms.
Twitter stock closed at $24.92, going green by 0.32% on December 14.
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