The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which hears federal appeals from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, recently issued a decision clarifying the level of specificity required to claim ...

The Human Factor Remains Critical GitGuardian, the security leader behind GitHub’s most installed application, today released the 5th edition of its “State of Secrets Sprawl” report, documenting how ...

A recent decision from the Eastern District of California illustrates the sometimes fine line between the need for plaintiffs to allege a claim for trade secret misappropriation in sufficient detail, ...

AI code assistants are helping to leak more secrets than the Github baseline, with credentials the most at risk.

AI-driven development fueled a surge in developer secrets leaks last year, with nearly 29m credentials discovered on public GitHub repos.

The rate at which developers leaked critical software secrets, such as passwords and API keys, jumped by half to reach 5.5 out of every 1,000 commits to GitHub repositories. That's according to a ...

Rival software company Pegasystems referred internally to a developer who had access to confidential Appian code as "our spy." After a seven-week trial, a Virginia state court jury sided with Appian ...

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