"Woefully Lax" Security Procedures at CIA Led to Data Theft
The CIA failed to install safeguards to prevent the theft of its most valuable cyber weapons in 2016.
The CIA failed to install safeguards to prevent the theft of its most valuable cyber weapons in 2016.
A man admitted he installed keyloggers at two companies and used them as a launching pad to steal data on emerging technology they were developing.
Prosecutors in the U.S. are pursuing criminal charges against a Chinese professor after he purportedly took trade secrets to benefit Huawei. The case is yet another instance of the Department of Justice taking its investigation around Huawei, not to mention the theft of trade secrets, seriously.
This company protected its sensitive data with biometric thumbprint scanner but still managed to suffer trade secret theft after a former director of research allegedly stole gigabytes of data on its recipes.
The manufacturer, which recently won an intellectual property case involving the theft of proprietary algorithms, source code, and programming language scripts, doesn't deny it was a victim of corporate theft but disagrees with the implication it was "Chinese espionage."
Like many companies developing self-driving car technology, Tesla and its embattled CEO Elon Musk continue to fight data theft within its ranks.
Verizon's new Insider Threat Report breaks down five categories of inside threat actors and outlines 11 steps to reduce risk and defend against malicious insiders.
One of the indictments alleges the company stole proprietary data, including the details of a robot designed to test mobile phones, from a US wireless firm.
Amazon confirmed this week that it's looking into claims that some of its employees have been taking bribes to leak and sell confidential data, like internal sales metrics and email addresses.
The Department of Justice said Friday hackers from Iran purportedly stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from universities and government entities.