<div dir="ltr">Hi to All,<div><br></div><div>Apologies for cross-posting. </div><div><br><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-1d1d5c3f-8d91-bf8c-62a7-cc6ac07158c8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has unveiled new research that social media attacks on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> are evolving, and proving much harder to resolve. In Venezuela, Bahrain, Myanmar, and elsewhere, activists who try recover their social media accounts using standard recovery processes can remain locked out. With this new form of account hijacking — which we’re calling the “Doubleswitch” — victims don’t just lose control of their social media accounts. They also have a harder time recovering these accounts, and in some cases, they never get them back. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can read the report here: <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/doubleswitch-attack/">https://www.accessnow.org/doubleswitch-attack/</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div>Best,</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Deji Bryce Olukotun<br>Senior Global Advocacy Manager<br>Access Now | <a href="http://accessnow.org" target="_blank">accessnow.org</a><br><br>tel: +1 415-935-4572 | @dejiridoo<br>PGP Fingerprint: 3AEE 4194 F70E C806 A810 857A 6AD5 8F48 6012 CDA8<br><br></div><div><i>Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter on digital rights, the Access Now Express: </i><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/#sign-up" target="_blank">https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/#sign-up</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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