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Morning Security Brief: Teachers Seek Firearms Training, Los Alamos Replacing Chinese Computer Parts, One Goh Unfit for Trial

- More than 600 teachers applied for a firearms training course. Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico is replacing Chinese-made components in its computer system over security fears. Oikos University shooter One Goh is diagnosed with schizophrenia. And more.

FBI Teaching Industry to Protect Trade Secrets

- The FBI is teaming up with North Carolina's Research Triangle to help educate industry on how to prevent trade secret theft.

Michigan Man Charged with Selling Fake Microsoft Software

- A Michigan man was arraigned last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit Microsoft software worth more than $1.2 million, according to the Department of Justice.

Survey Suggests Data Encryption Makes Leaks Harder to Detect

- Federal agencies say the number one way unauthorized data leaves their organizations is through e-mail and that encryption actually hampers efforts to detect the leaks, according to a survey of federal agencies conducted by Axway.

Countries Shy Away From Foreign Businesses Over National Security Fears

- Canada uses national security exemption to keep foreign companies from bidding on new telecom project. India mulls restrictions on foreign investments.

Machine Politics

- When it comes to casting, recording, and counting votes, electronic machines have fallen short of their initial promise. Learn what states are doing instead.

Legal Report

- Courts issue decisions on hostile work environments and whistleblowers. Lawmakers consider bills on economic espionage and transportation.

Machine Politics

- When it comes to casting, recording, and counting votes, electronic machines have fallen short of their initial promise. Learn what states are doing instead.

The Quiet Threat: Fighting Industrial Espionage in America

- This second edition updates its treatment of the topic with additions on tradecraft of the industrial spy and data mining of business information.

Economic Espionage

- A recent court ruling found that a former Goldman Sachs employee who stole code for a proprietary internal trading system did not violate the Economic Espionage Act because the code was for an internal system.

The Quiet Threat: Fighting Industrial Espionage in America, 2nd Edition

- Ronald Mendell explains governmental spying and how it differs from industrial espionage, with the latter being the primary focus of this work.

Morning Security Brief: Data Breach Notification, IPv6 Launches Worldwide, Arson Mystery at WSU, and More

- Consumers are unhappy with data breach notifications. IPv6 launches. Washington State University sees it fourth arson in two weeks. And more.

FBI Publishes Tips to Recognize the Company Mole

- The FBI says employees who leak trade secrets and other sensitive information often exhibit behaviors co-workers can pick up on to prevent such breaches.