Following the spoor of the Twitter hackers, a couple of whom seem to be talking to the press. Marketing databases and intelligence collection. TikTok ban? Hacking biomedical research.

Published: July 20, 2020, 7:47 p.m.

Notes on last week\u2019s Twitter hack, and on the allure of original gangster and other celebrity usernames. Using marketing databases for intelligence collection. The US Government mulls a ban on TikTok. Johannes Ullrich from SANS on Google Cloud storage becoming a more popular phishing platform. Our own Rick Howard on security operations centers, and a preview of the latest episode of his CSO Perspectives podcast. And more reaction to alleged Russian and Chinese attempts to hack COVID-19 biomedical research.\n For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/139\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices