There are a lot of Yahoo users who live in countries where their freedom of expression and freedom of association is not respected and where the government is trying to put malware on their computers to track them. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45 languages in 60 countries. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, we enjoy some of the longest-lasting… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don't see widespread adoption.… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
For most companies, they don't want to ever talk about security unless it's an absolute emergency and they've had a breach. And I think… — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
