Three former U.S. National Security Agency employees have been fined after they were found to have worked in the United Arab Emirates for a company that spied on and hacked political dissidents and others. The three men, Marc Baier, Ryan Adams and Daniel Gericke, allegedly worked for DarkMatter, an Abu Dhabi-based cybersecurity firm run by ...

Australian graphic design tool startup Canva Pty. Ltd. today announced $200 million in new funding to accelerate growth, including doubling its workforce in the next year. The round was raised on a valuation of $40 billion, making it one of the highest-valued startups in the world. T. Rowe Price led the funding round. Other investors included Franklin Templeton, Sequoia ...

Artificial intelligence-driven application programming interface security startup Neosec launched out of stealth mode today with an announcement that it has raised $20.7 million in new funding. The Series A round included True Ventures, New Era Capital Partners, TLV, SixThirty and individuals such as Mark Anderson, Gary Fish, Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar. Co-founded in 2020 by Ziv ...

Messaging and streaming platform startup StreamNative today announced it has raised $23 million in new funding to advance its stream storage and messaging technologies. Prosperity7 led the Series A round. Sequoia Capital also participated. StreamNative was founded in 2019 by the original developers of Apache Pulsar. The funding is said to underscore a market shift from legacy messaging ...

DataSecOps startup Satori Cyber Ltd. announced today it has raised $20 million in new funding for research and development and go-to-market expansion in the U.S. B Capital Group and Evolution Equity Partners co-led the Series A round. YL Ventures also participated. Founded in 2019, Satori pitches itself as the first DataSecOps platform to democratize data and scale ...

Network security specialist Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced Prisma SASE, a new product that brings together Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN into an integrated cloud-delivered service. The new product combines network security known as secure access service edge or SASE and software-defined wide-area networking or SD-WAN to ensure that organizations stay secure and productive while working ...

Intuit Inc. announced today it has agreed to acquire email marketing firm Mailchimp Inc. for $12 billion in a cash and stock deal. Acquisition talks were first reported Aug. 12. It was noted at the time that Mailchimp had received interest from private equity firms and “large technology firms.” On Aug. 31, one of those ...

Software-as-a-service customer relations management startup Freshworks Inc. today set its initial public offering range after having previously filed for an IPO in August. Freshworks is seeking to raise as much as $912 million in its public offering on a valuation of about $9 billion. The company plans to sell 28.5 million shares at a price range of ...

Apple Inc. today released an update from iOS, macOS and watchOS that addresses security flaws, including those being exploited by clients of Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. The so-called Forcedentry flaw was first revealed in August. The Citizen Lab is posting about it again, albeit in the context that Apple has finally addressed ...

Smart glasses are arguably the Holy Grail when it comes to tech adoption, since many have tried and none has succeeded. Despite the likes of Google LLC and Snap Inc. trying and dismally failing, Facebook Inc. has joined the club with the launch of its own take on smart glasses. First reported in March, Facebook’s ...