Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has become the latest tech company to announce a hiring freeze, with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg telling staff that he expects the company to be smaller in 2023. Zuckerberg announced the hiring freeze during a weekly Q&A session, according to a person in attendance, Bloomberg reported today. ...

A new report from security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. finds a significant uptick in business email compromise attacks for the first half of this year. Based on data analysis and insights from Arctic Wolf’s incident response unit Tetra Defense, BEC now accounts for over a third of all total cases responded to and the number ...

General Inception, a micro venture capital fund that describes itself as the first-ever “igniter” investment company, launched today with an aim to build companies from inception through scale-up and growth. As an igniter, General Inception says that it is not an accelerator or traditional venture capital fund, though it still invests in companies. Where General Inception ...

Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today announced that Snowflake Inc. now powers its Data Observability Cloud to provide joint customers with improved visibility and reliability in monitoring and analyzing the performance and configuration of modern data environments. With the new Snowflake integration, joint customers can now ensure resources are used efficiently. Acceldata’s Data Observability Cloud provides data teams ...

Zero-trust security startup Illumio Inc. today announced a new endpoint solution designed to prevent breaches from spreading to clouds and data centers from laptops. The new Illumio Endpoint tackles the issue wherein hybrid work has expanded the attack surface and introduced new threats that make organizations more vulnerable. The solution directly addresses the need for employees to have secure ...

Electronic signature and agreement cloud company DocuSign Inc. today announced it’s laying off about 9% of its workforce to support its growth and profitability objectives and to improve its operating margin. CNBC reported that as of January, DocuSign had 7,651 employees. The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of the company’s fiscal year ...

Fresh from winning an auction to acquire the assets of now-defunct crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital Ltd., the U.S. arm of FTX Trading Ltd. is reportedly considering bidding for the assets of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform provider Celsius Network LLC.  The claim comes from Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the matter late Tuesday. The report claims that ...

A new report from Google Cloud has surprisingly found that the biggest predictor of an organization’s application-development security processes is cultural, not technical, among other findings on application security. The 8th Annual State of DevOps report released today by Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment team focused on security this year given that more than 22 ...

Intel Corp. today announced it’s opening up its “Project Amber” pilot program and already has two companies signed up: professional services firm Leidos Holdings Inc. and consulting giant Accenture plc. Project Amber was announced in May and provides organizations with remote verification of trustworthiness in cloud, edge and on-premises environments. Designed to address growing security ...

New research from Akamai Technologies Inc. has found that about 20% of all new domain names registered, some 79 million, were registered for malicious purposes in the first half of the year. The research was based on queries through Akamai CacheServer instances that currently handle more than 80 million DNS queries per second, or 7 ...