SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs, Alex Stamos in Wake of Hack

SolarWinds, which has been embroiled in a recent, widescale hack, has called in two security powerhouses for help: Former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA Chris Krebs, and former Facebook security executive Alex Stamos. Texas-based SolarWinds hired the duo as...

Zoom Taps Ex-Facebook CISO Amid Security Snafus, Lawsuit

As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter – former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos – to provide special counsel. It has also named third-party expert security advisory teams. The popular videoconferencin...

Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security

Really interesting talk by former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos about the problems inherent in content moderation by social media platforms. Well worth watching...

Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security

Former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos argues that increasing political pressure on social media platforms to moderate content will give them a pretext to turn all end-to-end crypto off -- which would be more profitable for them and bad for society. If we ask tech companies to fix ancient societal ills...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...

Black Hat USA 2017 Preview

Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring preview Black Hat, which starts tomorrow in Las Vegas, including some thoughts on what call to action Facebook CSO Alex Stamos may deliver in his keynote address, along with some important topics and sessions that are sure to pop up throughout the week. Download: Black...

Facebook Messenger adds End-to-End Encryption (Optional) for Secret Conversations

Facebook has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app, thus making its users' conversations completely private. The end-to-end encryption feature, dubbed "Secret Conversations," will allow Messenger users to send and receive messages in a way that no one, including the FBI wi...

Yahoo Hires Bob Lord as CISO

Yahoo has filled the vacancy in its CISO office, today announcing the hiring of former Twitter and Rapid7 security executive Bob Lord. Lord starts in his new role Nov. 9. He was most recently Rapid7’s CISO-in-residence; he has spent much of the last two decades in high-profile security positions...

Yahoo Transparency Report Shows Requests for Data Up

Yahoo this week published its transparency report for the first six months of the year and the numbers indicate that government requests for data on its users are up slightly after sharp dropoff for the report covering the last six months of 2014. Yahoo said that it received 5,221 government data...

Facebook Hires Ex-Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos

Facebook has hired away the top security executive at Yahoo, Alex Stamos, to become the company’s new CSO. Stamos said Wednesday that he is joining Facebook because he believes the company is in the best position to address some of the large security challenges facing users and companies right no...

YAHOO! Now Encrypts Everything; Encrypted Yahoo Messenger Coming Soon

ON HIGH-PRIORITY YAHOO! is finally rolling out encryption implementation over their site and services in order to protect users. Yahoo is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive supporters of encryption, as in January this year Yahoo enabled the HTTPS connections by default, that automaticall...