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A former Microsoft employee has been arrested and is now facing accusations that he stole trade secrets from the software giant. Alex Kibkalo allegedly leaked pre-release updates for Windows RT and a Microsoft-internal Activation Server SDK to a French blogger.
Russian national Kibkalo worked for Microsoft both in Russia and in the company’s Lebanon office. Angered by a poor performance review, he retaliated against the company by leaking its software, according to the FBI’s criminal complaint. Kibkalo shared the information with an unspecified French blogger, encouraging that blogger to seek a hacker’s guidance in using the activation SDK to create a fake activation server.
The FBI claims in the complaint that the blogger posted screenshots of the unreleased software and attempted to sell Windows Server activation keys on eBay.
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This week, the European Parliament met and discussed written testimony from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The EU legislators also passed a new pan-European data privacy law backed by stiffer penalties…
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Privacy advocates have asked regulators to investigate Facebook’s recent acquisition of WhatsApp, and possibly even block it, due to concerns over how the social network will use the personal data of WhatsApp’s 450 million users. They’ve asked that Facebook “insulate” WhatsApp user information from access by Facebook’s data collection practices.
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