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Last updated: July 19th, 2022 at 16:47 UTC+02:00 Former employees of a Samsung Electronics subsidiary have reportedly been sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Seoul Central District Court for leaking information to a company in China. The latter company used the leaked information to develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies at a new factory it built specifically for the task. The convicted employees worked for SEMES, a Samsung Electronics subsidiary, for over a decade. According to the court, the…

Joshua Schulte, the former CIA engineer arrested for what's being called the biggest theft of classified information in the agency's history, has been convicted by a federal jury. Schulte was arrested in relation to the large cache of documents that Wikileaks had published throughout 2017. That string of CIA leaks known as "Vault 7" contained information on the tools and techniques the agency used to hack into iPhones and Android phones for overseas spying. It also had details on how the CIA broke into computers and how…

Chinese drone maker DJI has dismissed as "utterly false" accusations that it is leaking data on Ukrainian military positions to Russia, after a German retailer cited such information as a reason for taking its products off shelves.The rejection followed Friday's Twitter revelation of the removal by German electronics and home appliances giant MediaMarkt in response to "information from various sources", although it gave no details of the information it had.MediaMarkt said, "In the last few days, we have received more and…

Despite the soaring popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi), the crypto ecosystem is frequently criticized for its recurring liquidity shortfalls. Several competing realities underpin thin liquidity across the crypto universe. First, liquid assets are those assets that can be traded easily for cash. This means that there must be enough buyers in any market willing to put up cash for the assets. Herein lies the conundrum of the crypto market. Unlike their traditional counterparts (stocks, bonds, futures, and…

Seen as the cleaner alternative to coal and oil, natural gas is experiencing a golden age of consumption. From industrial processes to electricity generation, methane has become the choice of fuel for a green-washed market.  Although its combustion releases significantly less carbon dioxide than its liquid and solid hydrocarbon cousins, methane is a serious pollutant in its own right. What's more, the natural gas it comes packaged in could be delivered to our homes with a whole lot of unpleasant guests.Researchers from…

PhD student Paula Gonzalez testing soil for traces of gas leakage near a decommissioned well in England. Credit: Heriot-Watt University There is no evidence to suggest that England's decommissioned oil and gas wells are leaking methane into the environment, according to a new study by Heriot-Watt University. …

When Apple unveiled iCloud+ at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2021, one of its key features was a secure VPN called Private Relay. Yet a fresh report claims the service has been leaking user data on MacOS, potentially meaning it’s not as secure as previously thought. Private Relay works by obfuscating various identifying pieces of information when you browse the internet. It encrypts your data, separates your page requests from your IP address, then assigns you a spoof IP address. The idea is that…