Thursday, February 28, 2013

Panel: What should Twitter do to protect personal data?

SAN FRANCISCO — Some recent high-profile hacks have many industry experts (and plenty of Internet users) hotly debating how Twitter should better protect personal data.

During a panel discussion on Thursday afternoon, a quartet of executives at growing enterprise security startups debated and offered their suggestions of what the microblogging service needs to do now.

See also: Two-factor authentication won’t protect Twitter, Google: OneID

Estimating that there are more than a billion people on the Internet today, North Bridge Venture Partners partner and former Facebook exec Jonathan Heiliger noted that we’ve seen a rise of all kinds of cyber attacks, but the ones happening today are mostly on consumer sites as hackers leverage usernames and passwords.

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