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Apple sues over Mac secrets
News Last week, the California district attorney's office in Sacramento filed criminal charges against Lopez for the alleged leak of Apple trade secrets. Apple has filed a civil complaint against Jose Lopez, previously employed by Apple as a contractor...
[December 12, 2002, 7:41]
Amazon refuses to hand over book search 'secrets'
News In the filing at US District Court in Seattle, the company stated that the requested information is "highly confidential, proprietary and constitutes trade secrets". Amazon.com has declined to hand over information on its book search tools to...
[October 26, 2006, 11:20]
Microsoft suit alleges ex-worker stole trade secrets
News Microsoft has sued a former employee for allegedly lying when he applied for a job there and stealing trade secrets that were later used in a lawsuit against Microsoft partners.Update: 18 Nov 2009: The case has been settled out of court.
[February 2, 2009, 16:43]
Computer passwords reveal office workers' secrets
News Millions of Britons reveal their innermost secrets through their computer passwords, making their office PCs incredibly vulnerable to attack according to a study released today. Choosing a PC password has largely become a psychology test, with most...
[June 28, 2001, 12:37]
VMware shares secrets in security drive
News Virtualisation vendor VMware has quietly begun sharing some of its software secrets with the IT security industry under an unannounced plan to create better ways of securing virtual machines. VMware has traditionally restricted access to its...
[September 17, 2007, 8:46]
Mission Impossible system destroys itself rather than reveal secrets
News Would you die rather than reveal your secrets? No higher price can be asked of anyone, but this is the kind of commitment offered by a new piece of hardware from security specialists Decru. The DataFort FC1020 is a 10-port hardware-based encryption...
[November 15, 2005, 9:00]
AMD files to learn Intel's secrets
News The information protected is highly confidential; it involves trade secrets, and they do not relate to the EC inquiry," he said. Chipmaker AMD has filed a legal action to obtain confidential documents about Intel's business practices in an effort...
[October 25, 2001, 9:06]
RSA: Split passwords make secrets safer
News It will be used alongside smartcard systems, so that users' passwords, and the personal life secrets they give to the company to retrieve their password, are not accessible if the server's data store is accessed by a hacker.
[April 16, 2003, 8:54]
Sun countersues Azul over Java 'secrets'
News Sun Microsystems filed a countersuit Wednesday against Java hardware maker Azul Systems, arguing that the start-up infringed six Sun patents and misappropriated trade secrets to build its Java hardware.
[May 4, 2006, 9:20]
Oracle judge refuses to seal secrets
News Concern over the disclosure of trade secrets has cropped up again in the pretrial phase of the United States' antitrust case against Oracle, with a federal judge sternly rebuking a Department of Justice request to shelter evidence or testimony...
[April 19, 2004, 10:30]
AMD worker charged with Intel trade-secrets theft
News The FBI has charged an engineer with stealing trade secrets from Intel, his former employer, after taking a position with rival chipmaker AMD, The Boston Globe reported on Friday. A search of Biswahoman Pani's home in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 1...
[September 15, 2008, 8:53]
Sun after MS trade secrets, says MS
News Sun's complaint is based on their desire to gain access to our technical trade secrets," said John Frank, director of law and corporate affairs at Microsoft (Europe, Middle East and Africa), in a published statement.
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
SirCam worm puts secrets at risk
News The SirCam worm continued to gain momentum Monday, carrying with it the potential not only to slow corporate email servers but also to send along company secrets. The worm, which cropped up last week, continued to infect systems across the world...
[July 24, 2001, 8:46]
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
News Solar storms that can threaten satellites, power lines and communications are to be monitored in a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University starting on Thursday.
[June 5, 2009, 14:01]
Fizzer virus secrets revealed
News Members of the chat-network security group IRC/Unity have decoded the manner in which the creator of the Fizzer virus can communicate with the program, a co-founder of the group said on Monday. The Fizzer virus connects from an infected PC to a...
[May 20, 2003, 11:31]
Code breakers secrets revealed
News The British secret service is set to release reports about the types of computers used to break Nazi encryption during the Second World War, which are expected to rewrite the timeline of modern computing.
[October 2, 2000, 15:11]
Monitor glow may give away secrets
News Law enforcement and intelligence agents may have a new tool to read the data displayed on a suspect's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. Marcus Kuhn, an associate professor at Cambridge University in England, presented research...
[May 14, 2002, 14:56]
US secrets order covers Internet
News President Bush has signed an executive order that explicitly gives the government the power to classify information about critical infrastructures such as the Internet. Bush late Tuesday changed the definition of what the government may classify as...
[March 27, 2003, 8:44]
US government wants firms' security secrets
News The US Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications firms that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government.
[April 17, 2003, 7:58]
Microsoft opens Xbox secrets
News Microsoft on Wednesday put a price tag on its much anticipated Xbox, turning up the heat in the video-gaming market. The software giant also introduced a handful of companies who are creating online video games for the gaming system.
[May 16, 2001, 15:48]
