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1. U.S. sues three Chinese hackers to steal commercial secrets
The U.S. Department of Justice accused the three Chinese who worked for Bo Information Technology Inc. of penetrating Moody's Analytics, a network of Siemens and Tempo, to steal sensitive information.
The United States has sued three Chinese citizens for using hacking tactics to intrude on Moody's Analytics, maker of Siemens and global positioning system (GPS) Trimble, which accused them of stealing sensitive information, Including a key Moody's email, as well as intellectual property.
The three suitors, Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, who live in China, are said to have worked for Boyusec, a cybersecurity company in China, Man's prosecution is unusual because it can be difficult to pinpoint the originator of a cyberattack, and it sometimes seems too straightforward to do so.
Dana Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney for National Security, said the Department of Justice's 'good memory' will focus on the pursuit and prosecution of cybercriminals.
"The Department of Justice and the FBI once again prove that hackers around the world who want to steal the most sensitive and valuable information from our business can be exposed and chastised," he said.
The three sued individuals allegedly used the spear phishing email with attachments and malware links to intrude on these companies' networks. When employees of these companies click on links in emails, hackers can access the company's computers and search for businesses Confidential Information.
In 2011, Xia Lei allegedly visited the Moody's internal mail server and manipulated the server to forward all mail of an important employee to his accomplice-controlled account, alleging that Xia Lei, in 2013 and 2014, Read Moody economists' emails to see proprietary and confidential economic analyzes, findings and perspectives.
Recorded Future, a U.S. security firm, reported in a report this year that Bo Yu is a Chinese government contractor linked to a hacker group known as APT3.
The report said: 'Recorded Future's research gives us a great grasp of the origin of APT3 back to China's Ministry of National Security and Bo Yu Bo Yu has developed a malicious technology and cooperation with the Chinese intelligence services record.
The above Moody's employees are known as 'influential economists specializing in macroeconomics and housing finance,' which Moody's joins Moody's through Moody's acquisition of Economy.com in 2005.
The indictment said the hackers had attacked Siemens in 2014. At the time, Dong Ho had allegedly used his staff password to enter the Siemens network and stole confidential data relating to Siemens energy, technology and shipping operations to a total of 407GB of data.
It is alleged that Wu Yingzhu stole commercial secrets related to global navigation satellite technology being developed by Tianbao in 2015 and 2016. The indictment alleges that this may 'help one of Tianbao's competitors not to spend millions of dollars in research and development costs Develop, offer and sell a similar product. '
The three Chinese are each charged with eight counts, including conspiracy to commit computer fraud and fraud in conspiracy to steal trade secrets.
Moody's Analytics said it has been working closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies and constantly reviewing its cybersecurity defense and said: 'To the best of our knowledge, there is no disclosure of customer data or other employee personal information due to this incident.'
People familiar with Moody's analysis of hacking incidents said there was no disclosure of classified data due to the incident.
Siemens said that information security is 'top priority' but will not comment on internal security issues, said Tianbao, which said no customer data was leaked and the incident did not have any impact on its business.
The indictment was submitted by the Pennsylvania District Attorney's Office in Western Pennsylvania, where the office was responsible for the extremely eye-catching criminal suit against Chinese hackers in 2014. At that time, five Chinese officers were accused of using hacking techniques to invade U.S. steelmakers and A union's computer system steals trade secrets.
The U.S. signaled the appearances of these hackers on the arrest warrant as part of U.S. efforts to contain commercial espionage in China, and in September 2015 President Barack Obama, then President of the People's Republic of China, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Committed that their respective countries will not knowingly support economic cyber espionage.Government and private sector experts later noticed a decline in the number of such cyber attacks.
2. EU to Qualcomm 'Shangfangbaojian': free to determine the patent license price;
At present, the global mobile communications patent giant Qualcomm has been challenged by companies such as Apple and Huawei in the world to reduce the unfair royalty fees, but according to the latest foreign media news, the EU will announce a new patent licensing fee related policy, Qualcomm and Ericsson Patent holders, will be able to unilaterally cancel a company's patent license, or free to determine the license fee.
This is a very good news for Qualcomm, as well as a challenge to patent licensees, including Apple and German carmakers.
According to Reuters, quoting people familiar with the situation on Nov. 27, sources said EU-related agencies are preparing to introduce regulatory regimes for many connected devices, including the Internet of Vehicles, smart home, and energy equipment, which will overstep the traditional PC or Is a smart phone and patents are also part of this system.
In the area of licensing of scientific and technological patents, there are currently some lawsuits between authorized users and patent holders. Two large patent holders such as Qualcomm, Ericsson and Nokia are in the process of forming two agreements with authorized enterprises such as Apple, Volkswagen and Daimler camp.
Earlier, Qualcomm and Apple patent litigation battle occurred.Apple charges Qualcomm royalties unreasonable, in addition to the $ 1 billion in arrears, Apple has asked several foundries to stop paying royalties to Qualcomm.As a retaliation, Qualcomm sued Apple violated Many patents, and is seeking to ban the sale of Apple's electronic products in the Chinese market.
In mobile communications patents, Qualcomm, Ericsson and other companies tend to be based on a technology to the product value added to calculate the patent fee, in reality, according to the sale of mobile phones charge a certain percentage.It is reported that Qualcomm for smartphones charge for communication patent fees, Generally in the mobile phone sales price of about 5%, major customers will also receive concessions.
According to analyst estimates, Apple's patent for every cell phone paid to Qualcomm is $ 10.
However, Apple, Google (microblogging) and other Silicon Valley technology companies object to royalties based on the final sale price of electronic products.Apple and Qualcomm said in the lawsuit, the smart phone is no longer a simple communication tool, has a wealth of features , And Qualcomm provides only technical patents related to the communication function, it should be based on the price of communications components (that is, the baseband processor) to charge royalties, rather than in accordance with the price of mobile phones.
According to a Reuters report, sources said that the deletion of the phrase 'authorizing all enterprises' in the new patent fee system in the EU is a victory for Qualcomm, meaning Qualcomm is under no obligation to provide to all requesting firms Authorized.
In the past, according to industry practice, if a technology patent becomes part of an industry standard, the patent holder must provide all companies with a fair and uniform mandate. Whether the above EU reforms involve all patents including 'standard patents' It is still unknown.
In addition, the new EU policy also deleted the previous paragraph that the patent holder may not unilaterally determine the licensing fee.
This means that companies such as Qualcomm and Ericsson are still able to unilaterally set royalties for companies that can stop patenting if they can not agree.
According to reports, the EU's new government is a non-binding guideline policy, but will form the basis of other EU regulatory policies in the future.
According to foreign media reports, as Apple stopped paying Qualcomm royalties and asked to reduce the price, China's mobile phone maker Huawei has also stopped paying royalties, the other Samsung and other Android phone manufacturers may also follow the example of Apple and Huawei, to restart Patent fees and Qualcomm 's challenge.
In terms of patent licensing and royalties, Qualcomm has been subject to antitrust investigations in China, Taiwan, South Korea and the United States before, with the Chinese government issuing a $ 1 billion antitrust ticket and related agencies in Taiwan A ticket of less than $ 1 billion.
In the Chinese market, Qualcomm reduced the royalties after receiving a ticket and signed a patent licensing agreement with the vast majority of handset manufacturers. The atmosphere of cooperation is getting better.
It is reported that, up to now, Qualcomm is still charging according to the price of mobile phone patent royalties .Recently the company announced the 5G patent royalties, but also a certain percentage of the machine according to the same charge. Tencent Technology
3. Apple latest patent exposure: gestures can control the Mac;
According to the foreign media 9to5Mac, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially announced a series of new patents today, including a patent from Apple Inc. on the use of gestures to control Macs, which are owned by Micha Galor, Jonathan Pokrass and Amir Hoffnung, They all came from PrimeSense, which developed Microsoft's Kinect sensor and was acquired by Apple in 2013.
It is understood that PrimeSense also involved in the development of some Face ID behind some of the technology, this latest patent was originally submitted in December 2016, it seems to rely on a Mac device on a similar iPhone X TrueDepth camera system.
This new Apple patent covers inventions related to the computer system user interface, and in particular, the 3D-based user interface More specifically, this patent relates to a method of executing a non-tactile 3D user interface via a computer, Group gestures contain multiple 3D coordinates.
This patent describes a non-haptic 3D user interface transitioning from a locked state to an unlocked state with one gesture (which includes ascending movement in the vertical axis of the space) Once in use, the user will be able to control the Mac with additional gestures The gesture shown in the patent map is to push, wield and raise one hand.
We've already seen that Apple has applied for a patent on Face ID using a Mac, which was released even before the iPhone X debut, a further move than simply unlocking it's worth mentioning that another report showed Face ID may also appear on the future HomePod.
As usual, we have no way of determining which patent Apple will adopt, but Jobs's objection to the touch-screen Mac seems to apply to it as well, a tiring way to control even Apple's adoption Seems also quite limited
4. Google's new patent shows: the future can automatically adjust the angle between the screen and the user's face
According to foreign media reports, Google has won a new patent, the patent describes an automatic display hinge, it can automatically adjust the angle between the screen and the user's face.
Google in the patent file is described in this automatic hinge technology:
A portable hinge mechanism is used by a portable computer to move the lid between open and closed positions.The movement of the lid is based on a variety of sensor inputs One sensor may be configured to determine whether a user is within a predetermined threshold distance Another sensor detects whether the user is in direct contact with the laptop or not, and there may be an image sensor on the device that detects the user's face and constantly adjusts the angle and position of the lid to keep the user's face in the Camera within the field of view, or let the screen in the best viewing position.
It is reported that this patent by Google senior design engineer Ken Lo (Ken Loo) in 2013, he also participated in Google's driverless car project.
Of course, as with all patents, that does not mean we'll see the technology on the next Pixelbook, but we can still look forward to it.