"Mastodon Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Take Over Accounts"
"Mastodon Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Take Over Accounts"
Mastodon, the free and open-source decentralized social networking platform, has recently fixed a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate and take over any remote account. The platform became popular after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and now boasts nearly 12 million users spread across 11,000 servers. Servers on Mastodon are autonomous but interconnected (through a system known as "federation") communities that have their own guidelines and policies, controlled by owners who provide the infrastructure and act as administrators of their servers.