Intellectual Property

Insider Threats Surge Amid Growing Foreign Interference
A surge in insider threats, amidst increasing foreign interference and sophisticated tactics, suggests the need for enhanced detection and mitigation strategies ...
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SEC Regulations, Government Overreach and Access to Cybersecurity Information
Do the SEC's new rules qualify as government overreach? Sysdig's Crystal Morin explores the issue ...
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Is Someone Stealing Your Code? How to Lock Down Intellectual Property
Ensuring the robust protection of intellectual property is crucial for enterprises striving to retain their competitiveness ...
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AI Essential to Secure Dev, Successful DevSecOps—Yet Risks Abound
When finding security vulnerabilities within software built by in-house developers, there’s good reason to believe that development teams, thanks in part to the help of AI tools, are actually “shifting left” when ...
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Insider Risk: Theft of Trade Secrets Nets Thief Six Months
Christopher Burgess | | Cyberlaw, Insider, insider risk, Intellectual Property, IP theft, semiconductor
An interesting case of insider risk wrapped up recently in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts when U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young handed down a lenient sentence to Haoyang ...
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Uber’s Latest Shenanigans
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in conjunction with a number of worldwide publications, jointly released an ICIJ investigation, “The Uber Files” which detailed the back room deals and access enjoyed ...
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Cybereason Discloses Attack Vector Used by Chinese Cybergang to Steal IP
The Cybereason Nocturnus Incident Response Team today divulged how cybercriminals affiliated with the Chinese Winnti APT group compromised enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications in Windows environments. Dubbed Operation CuckooBees, the cyberespionage attacks ...
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FBI Director Warns of Chinese Espionage Threats
FBI Director Christopher Wray said in an interview on CBS’s Sunday news program 60 Minutes that the current level of cybersecurity threats from China was “unprecedented in history” and highlighted the country’s ...
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Former GE Engineer Convicted of Economic Espionage
Christopher Burgess | | china, Cybersecurity, economic espionage, General Electric, insider threat, Intellectual Property
On April 1, 2022, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the conviction of Xiaoqing Zheng of conspiracy to commit economic espionage following a four-week jury trial. Zheng will be sentenced on August ...
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Teachable Moment: An Insider Threat on Your Team
Christopher Burgess | | Code42, Insider, insider threat, Insider threat management, Intellectual Property
No manager or executive wants to receive a phone call informing them that a team member has engaged in suspicious activities that require a security investigation. But that’s just what happened to ...
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