Chinese hackers try to access info on federal employees getting security clearances

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Hat tip to Mary Beth (New York Times) Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials. They appeared to be targeting the files on tens of thousands of employees who have applied for top-secret […]

Engineer Faces 20 Years for Economic Espionage

This man recruited two DuPont engineers to steal secrets. (AP)  A Northern California chemical engineer is facing more than 20 years in prison for a rare economic-espionage conviction for selling to China the technology that creates a white pigment. A jury convicted Walter Liew, 56, of selling DuPont Co.’s secret recipe for making cars, paper […]