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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, ...

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 federal jury in San Francisco found a former Google software engineer guilty of espionage and theft of trade secrets in the first-ever espionage conviction related to AI. Following an 11-day trial, ...

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 rate at which developers leaked critical software secrets, such as passwords and API keys, jumped by half to reach 5.5 out of every 1,000 commits to GitHub repositories. That's according to a ...