Biotech Company Alleges Former Employee Stole Drug Trade Secrets

In a new lawsuit, one company is alleging a former employee stole sensitive trade secrets to help his new company, a would-be competitor, manufacture a lucrative drug.

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FBI Urges Caution with Legacy Systems Following Water Hack

The FBI reiterated that using end-of-life operating systems and desktop sharing software can open the doors for attackers, like in the Oldsmar water treatment plant hack.

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The Top Tips for IP Protection for Manufacturing Firms

With industrial espionage on the rise, we asked 24 manufacturing experts the best ways to protect intellectual property at manufacturing firms.

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NERC Refocusing Cybersecurity Efforts

In the face of mounting attacks against critical infrastructure, NERC, which oversees the United States' electrical grid, is retooling how it addresses cybersecurity.

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Highlighting Data Protection Best Practices for IIoT Systems

As IIoT (Industrial IoT) systems continue to interact with enterprise systems and business processes, a new guide offers a set of best practices to securing them.

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Chemical Manufacturer Data Theft Case to Begin in June

For the second time in the last month, a chemical manufacturer is accusing one of its former employees of stealing trade secrets to commercially exploit them in China.

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Semiconductor Company Awarded $66M in Trade Secret Theft Case

A California jury ruled earlier this month that Elec-Tech International Co., a Chinese competitor of semiconductor company Lumileds, misappropriated trade secrets belonging to Lumileds, and used them to develop ETI's energy efficient LEDs.

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DHS Report on Hacked Electric Utilities Highlights Supply Chain Fragility

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed this week that Russian hackers successfully infiltrated the control rooms of U.S. electrical utilities after compromising the networks of their corporate suppliers.

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Emerson Owes BladeRoom $30M in IP Theft Case

A jury ruled that Emerson Electric stole proprietary data center designs from BladeRoom, putting a close to a long running trade secrets lawsuit. The ruling comes a month after Facebook settled with the British manufacturing firm over similar charges.

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DBIR: Attackers Want To Steal Your Manufacturing Secrets

The threats of intellectual property theft and industrial espionage weigh heavily on manufacturers, according to this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon.

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