Author: David Leibermann

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has settled a civil suit over the violation of users’ privacy for $90 million. The case was first brought a decade ago and a preliminary settlement agreement was filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. It will need to receive final […]

Access control interfaces are a must for modern systems: Permit team/ Photo: Adi Lamm Permit.io, the full-stack authorization framework that enables developers to quickly integrate access control into cloud-native applications, emerged from stealth today with $6 million in venture funding. Or Weis, former CEO and Co-Founder of Rookout, and Asaf Cohen, a former software engineer […]

Blackstone acquires James Packer’s Crown casino empire. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Australia’s largest casino operator Crown Resorts has decided to enter into takeover negotiations with Blackstone after the US private equity firm increased its offer to approximately A$8.9bn (US$6.5 billion). Blackstone already owns 9.99 percent of Crown. Crown’s shares increased by as much as 9% following the […]

Anthony Weiner new radio talk show Anthony Weiner is getting yet another chance to be a somebody who gets to pretend that his opinion matters and spout out whatever comes to his tiny mind. Weiner will co-host a new daily radio political talk show in New York with Curtis Sliwa, who was just humiliated in […]

Vicarius Founders (company pic) Vicarius, yet another Israeli cyber security startup and one which has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by AllegisCyber Capital, JVP, and AlleyCorp. Founded in 2016 by the security experts Michael Assraf, Yossi Ze’evi and Roi Cohen, Vicarius protects clients against the exploitation […]

Legit Security Founders CEO Roni Fuchs, CTO Liav Caspi, and VP of R&D Lior Barak Credit for the pictures Liron Weissman Legit Security, a cyber security startup with an enterprise SaaS solution for securing an organization’s software supply chain, said today that it has emerged from stealth mode with a $30 million Series A fundraising […]

Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, is not happy with how the world’s biggest fast food chain gets its pork. So much so that he is now threatening a proxy fight for representation on the board of McDonald’s Corp. Apparently Carl Icahn, now 86, and chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P, is an animal rights supporter. […]

Minister of Public Security Omer Barlev Minister of Public Security Omer Barlev announced Monday that he was establishing a committee to investigate bombshell allegations that the Israel Police engaged in widespread extrajudicial spying against dozens of public leaders, activists, and individuals. Pegasus is widely regarded as one of the most powerful cyber-surveillance tools on the […]

Sidelines sports-tech startup team company Photo by Yochai Shaked Gavis Israeli Sports-tech startup Sidelines specializes in the development of a platform for social sports betting experiences. Sidelines has raised $25 million in a new round of funding led by investment firms NFX and MoreTech. Natural Intelligence, which is owned by Nir Greenberg, acquired Sidelines in […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Cyber Attack Startup Salvador Technologies Offers Novel Approach To CybersecuritySalvador Technologies provides what it calls the world’s fastest technology to recover from cyberattacks. The company’s unique approach to dealing with cyber threats is not just in the protection from hackers, but in how to recover […]