Security News > 2020 > April > Tor Project loses a third of staff in coronavirus cuts: Unlucky 13 out as nonprofit hacks back to core ops

This week in The Reg's security roundup of the notable bits beyond what we've already covered, the Tor Project has cut back to its core team, Zoom has called in the big security guns, US tech firms are taking on its Congress - and more.

First off, it has been a bad weekend for 13 staffers at the nonprofit Tor Project after they were let go as the team was reduced to core operations only.

"We had to let go of 13 great people who helped make Tor available to millions of people around the world. We will move forward with a core team of 22 people, and remain dedicated to continuing our work on Tor Browser and the Tor software ecosystem."

Luta Security has been tapped to help the videoconferencing giant set up a bug bounty program so that it can get its future security lapses cleaned up and rewarded before they go public.

Earlier in the month Zoom also recruited Alex Stamos, the former CSO of Yahoo! and Facebook, as well as noted security mavens Matthew Green, professor of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute and Lea Kissner, the former head of privacy tech at Google.

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