Buckle up for another encryption fight: Hot on the heels of securing parliament’s approval for its Online Safety Bill yesterday, the UK government is amping up pressure on Meta not to roll out end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) on Facebook Messenger and Instagram…
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Donald Trump Jr.’s X account was hacked, spokesperson confirms
Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X (formerly Twitter) was hacked on Wednesday morning. The account published a post that falsely claimed that his father, former president Donald Trump, had passed away. “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has…
Donald Trump Jr. X account was hacked, spokesperson confirms
Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X (formerly Twitter) was hacked on Wednesday morning. The account published a post that falsely claimed that his father, former president Donald Trump, had passed away. “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has…
Legit Security lands $40M to lock down apps and dev environments
Legit Security, a cybersecurity company developing a platform to identify app vulnerabilities from code, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by CRV with participation from Cyberstarts, Bessemer Venture Partners and TCV. Co-founder and CEO Roni…
Phalanx protects company data by automatically securing and tracking sensitive documents
Data loss prevention (DLP) has emerged as a foundational strategy for businesses looking to prevent workers from inadvertently (or advertently) sharing sensitive data outside the confines of the company network. At its core, DLP is about solving the “people problem”…
International Criminal Court says hackers accessed its systems
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it experienced a cyberattack last week after hackers accessed its internal systems. The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, is the only permanent war crimes tribunal. Established in 2002, the court is currently…
A year into private ownership, SailPoint cracks the $600M ARR threshold
The final earnings report that SailPoint disclosed before it was taken private detailed its Q2 2022 results, including revenue of $134.3M. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: A year into private ownership,…
HiddenLayer raises $50M for its AI-defending cybersecurity tools
HiddenLayer, a security startup focused on protecting AI systems from adversarial attacks, today announced that it raised $50 million in a funding round co-led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures with participation from Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Capital One and…
Cato Networks, valued at $3B, lands $238M ahead of its anticipated IPO
Cato Networks, the Tel Aviv-based startup that packages software-defined networking, managed cybersecurity and global backbone services into a single offering, today announced that it raised $238 million in an equity investment that values the company at over $3 billion. LightSpeed…
Sources: CrowdStrike will announce its Bionic.ai acquisition for $350M today
Earlier this year, we broke the news that CrowdStrike was close to acquiring Bionic.ai — a security posture management platform for cloud services — for between $200 million and $300 million. Sources tell us that this deal has now closed…