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| February 17 2025 | The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) launched DDoS attacks against Italian transport companies and banks, targeting airports (Linate and Malpensa), the Transport Authority, and ports of Taranto and Trieste, based on a misinterpreted statement by the President of the Italian Republic. |
| June 19 2023 | The agency submitted its 2022 annual report to the Italian parliament, revealing 1,094 cyber attacks during the year, a significant increase attributed to the conflict in Ukraine. |
| May 13 2023 | During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Rome, the pro-Russian group Noname057(16) claimed a cyberattack on the Viminale and CSM websites, which was effectively mitigated with no significant disruptions. |
| March 27 2023 | A cyberattack was launched against websites of Italian ministers and the postal police, which was largely unsuccessful, with only Atac (Rome's municipal transport company) experiencing temporary slowdowns. |
| March 19 2023 | The pro-Russian group NoName057(16) attacked Italian institutional websites, specifically targeting the CSM website and directly addressing the new agency director Bruno Frattasi and Rome's chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi. |
| March 9 2023 | Bruno Frattasi was appointed as the new director of the agency, replacing Roberto Baldoni. |
| March 7 2023 | Roberto Baldoni resigned as director of the agency due to differences with the Italian government, following cyber-attacks against Italy. |
| February 22 2023 | The agency issued an alert against a cyberattack perpetrated by the pro-Russian group NoName057(16). |
| February 5 2023 | A massive global cyberattack occurred, affecting a large part of the TIM network due to a vulnerability on VMware ESXi servers, causing millions of euros in damage and impacting thousands of servers. |
| 2022 | Divorced from Karen Cooper. |
| August 10 2022 | Diana Initiative conference held during DEF CON, adapting to COVID-19 pandemic circumstances by scheduling the event for August 10-11. |
| November 2021 | Roesch became CEO of Netography, which successfully raised $45 million in Series A funding. |
| June 14 2021 | The Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) was officially established by Decree 82, creating Italy's national cybersecurity agency to protect national security in cyberspace and coordinate public entities involved in cybersecurity. |
| January 2021 | Alex Stamos co-founded Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity consultancy, with former CISA director Chris Krebs. The new firm's first client was SolarWinds, a company that had recently experienced significant cybersecurity challenges. |
| June 22 2020 | The Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Bill 2019 received royal assent, with provisions specifying that viewers of live-streamed child cybersex trafficking will receive the same penalties as those who directly manipulate and direct child sexual abuse. |
| June 16 2020 | Both houses of the Parliament of Australia enacted the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Bill 2019, which strengthens legal responses to online sexual exploitation of children. |
| May 2020 | EasyJet publicly revealed the cyberattack and committed to notifying all nine million affected customers about email address access by 26 May. |
| April 2020 | EasyJet notified passengers whose credit card details were accessed during the data breach. |
| March 2020 | South Korean news agencies report details of the Nth room case, revealing at least 74 women and 16 minors were forced to perform 'sex shows' online for thousands of paying viewers using cryptocurrency. |
| January 2020 | EasyJet first discovered a significant cyberattack affecting approximately nine million people, with credit card details of 2,208 customers being accessed. The company initiated an investigation and notified the Information Commissioner's Office about the data breach. |
| 2019 | Park Jihyun first discovers the Nth room case, a significant cybersex trafficking incident in South Korea. |
| 2019 | Korea Future Initiative research reveals that approximately 15% of North Korean female refugees in China are sold into cybersex dens for global online exploitation. |
| 2019 | Europe accounted for 14% of worldwide sexual exploitation, with a significant focus on trafficking minors, particularly foreign female children from Nigeria into the EU for sexual exploitation. |
| November 2019 | AUSTRAC filed legal action against Westpac Bank for over 23 million suspected violations of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006. |
| August 8 2019 | Presidential Decree of the Council of Ministers further articulated the specific operational functions of CSIRT in Article 4, providing detailed guidelines for the national cybersecurity incident response team. |
| July 2019 | Facebook agreed to pay $100 million to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading investors about user data misuse during the period of 2015-2018. |
| June 30 2019 | Left his position at IBM at the end of June. |
| May 2019 | Australian Federal Police (AFP) uncovered numerous cases of Australians allegedly paying for and manipulating child sexual abuse. |
| 2018 | Global Threat Assessment revealed that Europe is a major center for Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC), with significant numbers of customers, traffickers, and victims originating from the region. |
| 2018 | Internet Watch Foundation's annual report highlighted that 79% (82,803 out of 105,047) of URLs containing child sexual abuse materials were hosted in Europe, with the Netherlands hosting 47% of this content. |
| 2018 | Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University. |
| 2018 | Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University. |
| 2018 | Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University. |
| 2018 | Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University. |
| 2018 | Made plans to leave Facebook following disagreements with executives about addressing Russian government disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and transitioned to a research professorship at Stanford University. |
| September 2018 | Investigation concludes, exposing the extent of online sexual exploitation of North Korean victims through South Korean websites. |
| July 2018 | Facebook notified users about the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting, which had occurred before Stamos's tenure but was known to the company since 2015. |
| May 18 2018 | Legislative Decree n. 65 established the foundational legal framework defining the functions of the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) in Italy. |
| March 2018 | Reported departure from Facebook as chief security officer (CSO) following disagreements about addressing Russian disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. |
| February 2018 | Investigation begins into South Korean websites promoting North Korean cybersex and pornography, revealing widespread online sexual exploitation. |
| 2017 | First Diana Initiative conference was held, establishing a cybersecurity conference dedicated to supporting underrepresented minorities in the field. |
| 2017 | Delivered a keynote address at Black Hat Briefings, advocating for broadening the definition of security and promoting diversity in the cybersecurity industry. |
| 2016 | Worked for IBM after they acquired Resilient Systems, serving as CTO. |
| 2016 | Queensland Police Service officers from Task Force Argos executed a federal search warrant on a 58-year-old Australian man who pleaded guilty to soliciting and sexually abusing two young children in the Philippines via Skype, making payments to their mother. The exploitation began when the children were two and seven years old and continued for nearly five years. |
| 2015 | Received the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award from Electronic Privacy Information Center. |
| 2015 | Alex Stamos joined Facebook as Chief Security Officer (CSO), co-authoring a whitepaper about social media's potential to be used in election attacks. |
| 2015 | Stamos testified before Congress on the complex topics of online advertising, computer security, and data privacy, sharing his expert insights on these critical technological issues. |
| February 2015 | At a cybersecurity conference hosted by New America, Stamos publicly challenged NSA Director Michael S. Rogers regarding encryption backdoors, demonstrating his stance on digital privacy and security issues. |
| 2014 | Alex Stamos joined Yahoo! as Chief Security Officer (CSO), taking on a significant role in the company's cybersecurity leadership. |
| 2014 | Joined Bain Capital Ventures, focusing on infrastructure software and cybersecurity. |
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