Alex Stamos
Consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group lays off six employees
A consulting firm founded and run by two well-known cybersecurity veterans laid off six people last week, TechCrunch has learned. Krebs Stamos Group was founded in 2021 by former Facebook chief securi
I know how the world ends, and it’s with a Twitter edit button
We survived four years of a Trump presidency, two years of a global pandemic, the ever-worsening impacts of climate change and the beginnings of a horrific war. But if you look outside, you’ll n
Facebook’s hand-picked ‘oversight’ panel upholds Trump ban — for now
Facebook’s content decision review body, a quasi-external panel that’s been likened to a ‘Supreme Court of Facebook’ but isn’t staffed by sitting judges, can’t be t
Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber consulting firm
Former U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds.
LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M
Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Now the cit
Zoom faces criticism for denying free users e2e encryption
What price privacy? Zoom is facing a fresh security storm after CEO Eric Yuan confirmed that a plan to reboot its battered security cred by (actually) implementing end-to-end encryption does not in fa
Zoom consultant Alex Stamos weighs in on Keybase acquisition
When Zoom started having security issues in March, they turned to former Facebook and Yahoo! Security executive Alex Stamos, who signed on as a consultant to work directly with CEO Eric Yuan. The goal
Zoom sued by shareholder for ‘overstating’ security claims
Zoom has been served with another class action lawsuit — this time by one of its shareholders, who says he lost money after the company “overstated” its security measures, which led its
Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos on Facebook’s counter-terrorism team and the private-public divide
Alex Stamos rose to fame as the chief security officer for Yahoo and then Facebook. But today he’s the director of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, where he’s immersed in teaching and re
Protecting the integrity of US elections will require a massive regulatory overhaul, academics say
Ahead of the 2020 elections, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and his colleagues at Stanford University have unveiled a sweeping new plan to secure U.S. electoral infrastructure and
Meet the tech boss, same as the old boss
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It seems darkly funny, now, that anyone ever dared to dream that tech would be different. But we did, once. We would build new com
Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can us
Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note p
Facebook under pressure over Soros smear tactics
Facebook is facing calls to conduct an external investigation into its own lobbying and PR activities by an aide to billionaire George Soros. BuzzFeed reports that Michael Vachon, an advisor to the ch
Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads
Facebook has confirmed it does in fact use phone numbers that users provided it for security purposes to also target them with ads. Specifically a phone number handed over for two factor authenticatio
Facebook’s ex-CSO, Alex Stamos, defends its decision to inject ads in WhatsApp
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, who left the company this summer to take up a role in academia, has made a contribution to what’s sometimes couched as a debate abou
Facebook pilots new political campaign security tools — just 50 days before Election Day
Facebook has rolled out a “pilot” program of new security tools for political campaigns — just weeks before millions of Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections. The social ne
Former Facebook security chief says creating election chaos is still easy
As someone who’s had a years-long front-row seat to Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. politics, former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has a pretty solid read on what we can e
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos: Being a CSO can be a ‘crappy job’
Alex Stamos has been at the helm of some of the world’s most powerful companies for the past half-decade and is widely regarded as one of the smartest people working in the security space. Now,
Outgoing Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Disrupt SF to talk cybersecurity
At Disrupt SF 2018, Facebook’s soon-to-be-former chief security officer Alex Stamos will join us to chat about his tenure in the top security role for the world’s biggest social network, h