Four convicted for stealing trade secrets
Three employees of a steel engineering company in North China's Tianjin were convicted Wednesday on charges of stealing commercial secrets from their former employer, a steel company in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
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DuPont employee accused of selling secrets to China
The DuPont Co. has filed a lawsuit against -- and fired -- a Chinese-born employee who was allegedly about to leave Delaware and return to China with company trade secrets.
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Now What? Calm Urged When Theft Hits Your Company
The president of a company comes to work one morning and listens to his phone messages. One ominous message is from a district attorney about his chief financial officer. Intrigued, he returns the call. The district attorney says that the financial officer, who has been employed by the company for two years and has not yet returned from a vacation, has been arrested and accused of embezzling from his prior employer.
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10 tech mistakes small businesses make (and how IT consultants can help clients avoid them)
Small businesses must concentrate their time and energy on knowing their own industry — and that often means that effective technology practices get overlooked. Erik Eckel explains the most common tech missteps he’s encountered, along with preventive measures to protect businesses and prevent serious problems.
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With economic slump, concerns rise over data theft
Security breaches will go up as a result of the downturn, McAfee says
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$1 Trillion
The estimated dollar loss that Dennis C. Blair, the Director of National Intelligence referenced in the Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for intellectual property and data theft in 2008 for businesses globally.
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Lean times boost white-collar crimes
Corporate "shenanigans" are under the spotlight, writes Howard Rapke.
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Survey: Axed Employees Often Walk Out with Corporate Data
A study of people who left or lost their jobs in 2008 found close to 60 percent kept corporate data after leaving. The survey, performed by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Symantec, included more than 900 responses and found that many of those who took the data did so by stealing paper documents and hard files.
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Former Boeing employee charged in data theft
Seattle police have charged a former Boeing employee with 16 counts of computer trespass for the alleged theft of 320,000 files, as well as leaking them to a Seattle-area daily newspaper.
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Records detail security failure in base file theft
A group suspected of stealing secret files on potential terrorists in San Diego and elsewhere apparently operated with impunity from one of Camp Pendleton's most heavily guarded buildings, newly obtained court records and investigative reports show.
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