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Original article at Motherboard.Vice.com
A college student who stole more than $5 million in cryptocurrency by hijacking the phone numbers of around 40 victims pleaded guilty and accepted a plea deal of 10 years in prison, Motherboard has learned.
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Original article at CNNBusiness.com
The FBI is accusing a Chinese national of stealing trade secrets while working for Apple. It alleges that engineer Jizhong Chen attempted to take key details from Apple's (AAPL) secretive self-driving car project. Chen was arrested and charged last week, just before he was scheduled to fly to China, according to a criminal complaint filed in US district court in California. Apple said that if the confidential material got out, it would be "enormously damaging" for the company, the complaint said. NCSC Launches Campaign to Help Private Industry Guard Against Threats from Nation State Actors1/7/2019 Original information at DNI.gov
“Make no mistake, American companies are squarely in the cross-hairs of well-financed nation-state actors, who are routinely breaching private sector networks, stealing proprietary data, and compromising supply chains. The attacks are persistent, aggressive, and cost our nation jobs, economic advantage, and hundreds of billions of dollars,” said NCSC Director William Evanina. “To enhance private sector awareness, we’re arming U.S. companies with information they need to better understand and defend against these threats.” NCSC Awareness Materials Original article at Inc.com
I'm a competitive-intelligence researcher. A spy, of sorts. I don't break the law. But I always feel like I'm right on the edge of it, never mind my rigid ethical standards. The information I secure is given freely and obtained legally, and I don't lie to get it, but in the back of my mind I'm always thinking, You probably don't want me to know this.
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