SwiftOnSecurity
American computer-security-related twitter account with an occasional Taylor Swift theming
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| Intro | American computer-security-related twitter account with an occasional Taylor Swift theming | ||
| Places | United States of America | ||
| is | Hacker Computer scientist Software engineer | ||
| Work field | Internet Science Technology | ||
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Biography
SwiftOnSecurity is a pseudonymous computer security expert and influencer on Twitter who pretends to be Taylor Swift. As of September 2022, they have over 375,500 followers. The account was originally created to post Taylor Swift-related memes about the Heartbleed bug. The name was chosen due to Swift's caution with regard to digital security, and the account's original focus on cybersecurity. The account has been cited in news articles about computer security. They are a Microsoft MVP, and work as an endpoint monitoring lead for a Fortune 500 company. Their blog contains general computer security advice, with a large amount dedicated to Windows and phishing.
Atlassian
In December 2019, SwiftOnSecurity tweeted about an issue in Atlassian software that embedded the private key of a domain. This turned out to be a security vulnerability, and was assigned CVE-2019-15006.