Bug the kids: Hackers high on Industrial espionage.
Byline: Jacob Cherian If you are of reasonable significance, be sure to not use your kids' computers. In other words, if you are the sort of person who has access to confidential information that could be of high value to others, you better be careful of two...

Company Watch - Qantas Airways.
Nov 30, 2008 Northrop Grumman is testing the flight computer system that on 7 October caused a Qantas Airbus A330 to suddenly descend several hundred feet. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says tests of the system's three air data inertial reference units aim "to understand what led...

Airline Finance News - Asia / Pacific.
Nov 30, 2008 Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines Jet Airways and that concerns fuel prices. Unusually for an international carrier, Jet did not hedge its fuel price so whereas its rivals might be paying a hedged rate of USD90 a barrel it's benefitting from the dramatic...

Baton Down The IT Hatches When It Comes To Exiting Employees.
Reprinted with permission from FindLaw.com Companies apparently need to be afraid - very afraid - and must be very careful when dealing with exiting employees who have knowledge of corporate information technology. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Cyber-Ark Software, as many as 88%...

PSI handbook of business security; 2v.
9780275993948 PSI handbook of business security; 2v. Ed. by W. Timothy Coombs. Praeger 2008 731 pages $200.00 Hardcover HV8290 Coombs (Eastern Illinois U.) intends this two-volume work to serve as a...

Dirk Kurbjuweit. Nicht die ganze Wahrheit.
Dirk Kurbjuweit. Nicht die ganze Wahrheit. Zurich. Nagel & Kimche. 2008. 220 pages. 19.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-312-00410-2 Dirk Kurbjuweit's recent novel is something of a "Krimi," a mystery, but much more as well. It is narrated by detective Arthur Koenen, who at the beginning is "casing" an...

Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer. Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century.
Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer. Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century by J.R. Harris. Aldershot, England, and Brookfield, Vermont, Ashgate, 1998. xviii, 655 pp. $113.95 U.S. In the middle of the siecle des lumieres a Beauvais manufacturer described the English as models because "they do things...

Intellectual property aspects of entrepreneurship: protection in patent and trademark areas, as well as copyright and know-how areas (local and foreign); penetration of overseas markets (directly or through licensing); possible industrial espionage concerns.
INTRODUCTION Raymond Ku DR. KING: Okay. We are ready. Let's go. PROFESSOR KU: Welcome back, everyone. I am Raymond Ku. I teach Copyright and Constitutional law here at Case Western. I am also co-director for the Center for Law Technology and the Arts,...

Ad strategies that end up in competitors' offices.
Byline: Ravi Balakrishnan Tata Motors' Nano has already won the admiration of large sections of the local advertising industry - and it's for none of the obvious reasons. What agency folk want to know is how Tata managed to keep their latest car a secret until the...

RV maker posts video to stir up some buzz.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard COBURG - A visitor to the Monaco Coach Corp. message board on Yahoo! Finance recently posted this intriguing headline: "Spying on the Monaco factory?" "Anyone seen this? Found this on the web today," wrote the poster, directing people to www.rvspyguys.com....