Facebook's head of security has a big concern: Android

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http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-head-of-security-alex-stamos-biggest-concern-is-android-2015-11

By Rob Price
Business Insider
November 4, 2015

Facebook's head of security, Alex Stamos, has a seriously high-pressure 
job: Keeping 1.5 billion Facebook users safe and secure every day.

The American software engineer works at Facebook’s global head of 
security, where he is ultimately responsible for protecting its billions 
of users — whether that’s from opportunistic teenagers hackers in their 
parents’ basements, or sophisticated nation-state backed attacks.

So what worries him the most? “Mobile devices.”

Speaking at the Irish tech conference Web Summit on Wednesday afternoon, 
Stamos told CNN’s Laurie Siegel that the proliferation of cheap 
smartphones across the globe has made hundreds of millions of people 
vulnerable to hacking.

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