Biography:SwiftOnSecurity

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SwiftOnSecurity is a pseudonymous computer security expert and influencer on Twitter who pretends to be Taylor Swift.[1][2][3] As of February 2020, they have over 300.000 followers.[4] The name was chosen due to Taylor Swift’s caution to digital security.[5] The account has been cited in news articles about computer security.[6][7] They are a Microsoft MVP and work as an endpoint monitoring lead for a Fortune 500 company.[8] Their blog contains general computer security advice and also specifically for Windows and phishing.[9]

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.[10]

References

  1. Conger, Kate (2019-09-05). "The Work Diary of Parisa Tabriz, Google’s ‘Security Princess’" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/business/parisa-tabriz-google-work-diary.html. 
  2. Whittaker, Zack. "When security meets sarcasm: Taylor Swift brings infosec to the masses" (in en). https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-security-meets-sarcasm-infosec-taylor-swift-cybersecurity/. 
  3. Zimmerman, Jess (2015-06-18). "Parody Twitter accounts have more freedom than you and I ever will | Jess Zimmerman" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/18/parody-twitter-accounts-more-freedom. 
  4. "SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) | Twitter" (in en). https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity. 
  5. Hern, Alex (2019-01-29). "How Taylor Swift became a cybersecurity icon" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2019/jan/29/digital-security-taylor-swift-facetime-privacy-bug-breaches. 
  6. "Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords" (in en-US). http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/06/02/password-expiration-is-dead-long-live-your-passwords/. 
  7. "Google Busy Removing More Malicious Chrome Extensions from Web Store" (in en). https://threatpost.com/google-busy-removing-more-malicious-chrome-extensions-from-web-store/128435/. 
  8. "About this site" (in en-US). http://decentsecurity.com/about. 
  9. "Decent Security" (in en-US). http://decentsecurity.com/. 
  10. Thomas, Claburn. "Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter" (in en). https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/05/atlassian_zero_day_bug/. 

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