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A former executive at a company that sells zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to the United States and its allies pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to selling trade ...

A former software executive's guilty plea to charges of breaking into a rival's computers and stealing trade secrets has offered a rare glimpse into the world of corporate espionage. John O'Neil, ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which hears federal appeals from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, recently issued a decision clarifying the level of specificity required to claim ...

Managing various encryption keys and other secrets has always been painful for enterprise security managers. A new service from GitGuardian called Has My Secret Leaked attempts to bring some clarity ...

Counsel at Bayer, Regeneron and two other companies explain what the rise of software in their firms means for IP protection and finding outside counsel Software has become more important to a lot of ...

Rival software company Pegasystems referred internally to a developer who had access to confidential Appian code as "our spy." After a seven-week trial, a Virginia state court jury sided with Appian ...

The plaintiff, NEXT Payment Solutions, Inc., designs and develops customer service software. The defendant, CLEAResult Consulting, Inc., provides North American utilities with energy efficiency ...

A company called Gamma International has suffered a serious security breach, resulting in hackers posting its confidential data on the web for anyone to download. You might think–there’s nothing so ...