LinkedIn has a new chief information security officer, Lea Kissner. Announcing the appointment in a LinkedIn post (fittingly), Kissner said they are “excited” to take on the new role. Kissner most recently served as CISO at cloud security startup Lacework. Prior to that, Kissner was Twitter’s CISO until their departure in November 2022, weeks after Elon […]
Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules
Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, following Musk’s 2022 takeover of the social media platform. On Tuesday, Musk defeated one of those lawsuits, as a federal judge ruled X Corp. doesn’t owe the ex-employees any more severance. The lawsuit, filed by Twitter’s former head of […]