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You are instantly suspended by a Twitter bug when you tweet “Memphis”

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You are instantly suspended by a Twitter bug when you tweet "Memphis"

According to a glitch on Twitter, if a person tweets the phrase “Memphis,” their account will be temporarily terminated, according to BleepingComputer.

This problem first appeared today when users who were tweeting about Memphis, Tennessee, sports teams, or athletes noticed that they were suddenly suspended for a period of 12 hours.

Even while some claim that Twitter’s flaw has been fixed, a recent test by BleepingComputer shows that we were immediately suspended when we tweeted the term “Memphis.”

While it may seem like Twitter is trying to ban the great city of Mephis, this is probably the result of a spam, bot, or fraud filter that has been set up incorrectly.

Despite not disclosing the precise cause of the bug, Twitter has now addressed it.

Twitter issued a comment to BleepingComputer stating that “the situation stated was the consequence of a bug, and has subsequently been rectified.”

In our tests, in order to regain access to the account if you were impacted by the bug, you had to complete a captcha and verification process. It will welcome you back as a “person” once you have verified your account.

This suggests that a malfunctioning anti-bot filter was probably to blame for the bug.

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Angry IT administrator destroys employer’s databases; sentenced to 7 years in prison

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Angry IT administrator destroys employer's databases; sentenced to 7 years in prison

Han Bing, a former database manager for Lianjia, a major Chinese real estate agency, was given a 7-year prison term for breaking into company computers and erasing data.

Bing is accused of carrying out the conduct in June 2018, when he reportedly accessed the company’s finance system using his administrator rights and “root” account and deleted all previously saved data from two database servers and two application servers.

Large elements of Lianjia’s operations were immediately crippled as a result, leaving tens of thousands of workers without pay for an extended length of time and necessitating a data restoration effort that cost about $30,000.

However, because Lianjia has thousands of offices, employs over 120,000 brokers, owns 51 companies, and has an estimated $6 billion market value, the indirect costs from the firm’s economic disruption were significantly more detrimental.

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H. Bing was one of the five primary suspects in the event involving the data deletion, according to records made public by the court of the People’s Procuratorate of Haidian District, Beijing.

When the administrator refused to reveal his laptop password to the company’s inspectors, suspicions were quickly aroused.

Chinese media outlets who reprinted portions of the disclosed documents explain that “Han Bing stated that his computer had confidential data and the password could only be handed to official authorities, or would only accept entering it personally and being present during the checks.”

The checks were solely carried out to evaluate the response of the five employees who had access to the system because, as the investigators testified in court, they knew that such an operation wouldn’t leave any records on the laptops.

Finally, the experts were able to pinpoint the activity to particular internal IPs and MAC addresses after retrieving access records from the servers. The inspectors even collected WiFi network logs and timestamps, which they afterwards compared against CCTV footage to validate their suspicions.

The forensic expert hired by the company concluded that Bing had wiped the databases using the “shred” and “rm” commands. Rm deletes the files’ symbolic links, whereas shred overwrites the data three times with different patterns to make it unrecoverable.

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Unexpectedly, Bing had regularly warned his employer and superiors about security flaws in the finance system, even emailing other administrators to express his concerns.

He was mostly disregarded, nevertheless, as the departmental administrators never gave their approval for the security project he wanted to oversee.

This was supported by the testimony of the director of ethics at Lianjia, who told the court that Han Bing frequently argued with his superiors because he believed his organisational suggestions weren’t valued.

A similar incident occurred in September 2021 when a former employee of a credit union in New York deleted approximately 21.3GB of records in a 40-minute rampage as retaliation for her managers terminating her.

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Zuckerberg says Facebook is dealing with Spotify on a songs assimilation job codenamed Task Boombox (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC).

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Zuckerberg says Facebook is working with Spotify on a music integration project codenamed Project Boombox (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

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Zuckerberg says Facebook is working with Spotify on a music integration project codenamed Project Boombox  —  – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced that the company is building audio features where users can engage in real-time conversations with others.

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THE UNITIONS OF WEARABLE DEVICE SHIPMENTS FOR 2020 GREW 28.4% TO 444.7M UNITS, TEAHING FROM APPLE, WHICH GREW 27.2% IN Q4 AND HAS 36.2% MARKETSHARE, FOLLOWED BY XIAOMI AT *9% (IDC).

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WEARABLE DEVICE SHIPMENTS FOR 2020

Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi at ~9%  —  Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase …

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