Hot Topics

intellectual property theft

Crowdstrike Qualcomm threat Linux security XDR Kubernetes open source security

Qualcomm: ‘We’d Like Our IP Back, Please’

| | Cybersecurity, Data breach, Guarav Kathuria, insider threat, intellectual property theft, Qualcomm
It was the third week of January 2022 and the offer letter was signed and accepted; Guarav Kathuria was on his way out the door to start the next chapter in his ...
Security Boulevard
Supreme Court IP

Levandowski Admits to Stealing Waymo’s IP

| | Anthony Levandowski, autonomous vehicles, insider threat, intellectual property theft, Uber, waymo
The prosecution of former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski ended March 20 when he agreed to plead guilty to one count of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Alphabet’s Waymo after ...
Security Boulevard
Levandowski

Former Google-Waymo Engineer Levandowski Charged With IP Theft

| | Department of Justice, intellectual property theft, Uber, waymo
Some 18 months after Uber cleared the air with Waymo (an Alphabet/Google company) via a civil settlement then worth $245 million in Uber stock, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed a ...
Security Boulevard
cyber espionage

Economic Espionage: Zheng and Zhang Fleece General Electric

| | china, GE, General Electric, intellectual property theft, IP thet
The week of April 15 saw the unsealing of the indictment of Xiaoquing Zheng and his co-conspirator Zhaoxi Zhang on multiple counts of economic espionage associated with the theft of the intellectual ...
Security Boulevard
Log4j

2 Chinese Indicted for Conducting MSS-Directed Cyberespionage

| | china, cyberespionage, Espionage, intellectual property theft, section 301, ustr
The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of two individuals who operated under the direction of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS): Zhu Hua (朱华), aka Afwar, aka CVNX, aka ...
Security Boulevard
attorney-client Uber CISO law Van Buren data privacy Accenture

DoJ Jumps into the Micron Intellectual Property Theft Fray

| | china, DOJ, Fijian Jinhua, intellectual property theft, iptheft, Micron, United Microelectronics
The U.S. Department of Justice has jumped into the fray between Micron Technology, companies located in Taiwan and China and three individuals with the release of a grand jury indictment. Readers may ...
Security Boulevard
Theft of GlaxoSmithKline R&D

A Chinese Affair: Theft of GlaxoSmithKline R&D

| | china, GlaxoSmithKline, insider threat, intellectual property theft, Renopharma
Within the past two weeks, two of five indicted individuals have pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline for use in their own China-based company, Renopharma. Yu Xue filed her plea ...
Security Boulevard
chinese China with GE’s Intellectual Property

Moonlighting in China with GE’s Intellectual Property

| | china, intellectual property theft
There seems to be a never-ending supply of stories about insiders who believe their company’s intellectual property is also their intellectual property. This month, we see Xiaoqing Zheng, 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen ...
Security Boulevard
Valentine's Day dating apps Fair in Love and War

All Is Fair in Love and War — Except When Swiping Right

| | Bumble, intellectual property theft, Match
Two of the Goliaths of dating apps are having a legal tussle surrounding the intellectual property of one and other. The entities? That would be Bumble and Match.com’s Tinder. The Birth of ...
Security Boulevard
U.S. Charges 9 Iranians with Data Theft in Cyberespionage Campaign

U.S. Charges 9 Iranians with Data Theft in Cyberespionage Campaign

| | cyberespionage, indictment, intellectual property theft, Iran, state-sponsored attack
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted nine Iranian nationals with cyberespionage for cyberattacks that resulted in the theft of more than 30TB of data from domestic and foreign universities, commercial ...
Security Boulevard
Load more