Collaborate Disseminate
The post-COVID-19 surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with across-the-board digitalization, will be big drivers for medical-sector cyberattacks next year. Continue reading Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data
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 pilfering Waymo’s intellectual property (IP). In e… Continue reading Levandowski Admits to Stealing Waymo’s IP
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 federal grand jury indictment of Anthony Levandowski, the i… Continue reading Former Google-Waymo Engineer Levandowski Charged With IP Theft
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 property of General Electric. Zheng previously had b… Continue reading Economic Espionage: Zheng and Zhang Fleece General Electric
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 Alayos, aka Godkiller; and Zhang Shilong (张士龙), aka Ba… Continue reading 2 Chinese Indicted for Conducting MSS-Directed Cyberespionage
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 recall in February we wrote about Micron’s ef… Continue reading DoJ Jumps into the Micron Intellectual Property Theft Fray
The DOJ described five years of stealing turbofan engine designs that relied on insiders, state-sponsored hackers, phishing and malware. Continue reading US indicts alleged Chinese spies for hacking aerospace companies
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 of guilty Aug. 31, while Tao Li filed his plea … Continue reading A Chinese Affair: Theft of GlaxoSmithKline R&D
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 originally from China, who… Continue reading Moonlighting in China with GE’s Intellectual Property
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 Bumble In late 2014, Whitney Wolfe Herd and two other Tinder c… Continue reading All Is Fair in Love and War — Except When Swiping Right