Indian Detained in Connection With Singapore Refinery Petroleum Theft Case

A court sentenced the individual to four weeks in prison and issued a punishment order for SGD 4,046.70, which is equal in local currency to the amount of the bribe.

According to a media report, a 39-year-old Indian national in Singapore was sentenced to four weeks in jail and told to p...

Taliban to enforce strict punishments, to carry out executions and amputations

Highlights

• Taliban to enforce its interpretation of Islamic laws
• Public executions and amputation may be carried out but not in public

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of Taliban said in an interview that they will once a...

Global Identity Theft Protection Services Market is expected to grow at CAGR

Online financial transactions are increasing day by day. It is driven by factors like speed and convenience. These services have helped banks to scale up in terms of offering value – based services to clients. The market size of the industry in US is expected to grow by 1.5% in 2021. Accord...

VOLKSWAGEN ASKS GOVERNMENT TO AMICABLY RESOLVE LG-SKI SPAT IN LARGER INTERESTS

• Volkswagen has reportedly asked authorities here to possibly talk for truce in the on-going legal battle between LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation (SKI) over the reported theft of electric vehicle (EV) battery-making trade secrets.
• This is concerning impacts which will be fe...

ESTONIA'S INFORMATION SYSTEM AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES BANNED FROM DOWNLOADING TIKTOK

HIGHLIGHTS

• Estonian Information System Authority has banned its employees from downloading and installing TikTok.
• TikTok is being seen as a security risk by many in Estonia.

Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet (RIA), the Estonian Informatio...

CUTERA SUES LUTRONIC FOR ALLEGED THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS

Highlights –

• US Subsidiary of South Korea’s laser equipment brand ‘Lutronic’ sued by Cutera
• Claims made for alleged trade secret theft by Lutronic
• Total damages asked by Cutera is yet to be quantified

DECADE-OLD DOCUMENTS PROVE HUAWEI HELPED IRAN DODGE U.S. TECHNOLOGY SANCTIONS

Highlights:

• Internal company documents clearly show how Huawei Technologies Co., China’s largest smartphone maker, violated U.S. sanctions on Iran despite constant denials by the company.
• Huawei also allegedly played a direct role in shipping Am...

ANOTHER CHINESE SCIENTIST GUILTY OF TECHNOLOGY THEFT, SENTENCED FOR 24 MONTHS

Highlights:

• The Chinese scientist was also a permanent legal resident of the United States.
•  He was arrested in December 2018 and pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets in November last year.
• The Justice Department said in a statemen...

Isolated Iceland is now Vulnerable to the scams of Computer

"Hello there, I believe you are not occupied?" The treasurer of the Icelandic soccer club received the email from the administrator late in the evening, before banks were going to close. The words "Sent from my iPhone" were at the base, recommending earnestness, and through a ...

For the hope of getting employed at the tech giant, a schoolboy hacked Apple twice

An Adelaide teen who successfully hacked into the computer system of Apple when he was the age of 13 only has been requested to divert his notable talent for the good cause rather than evil. It was heard by the court that the kid along with another youngster from Melbourne hacked into the tech gi...