Korea's tech industries are increasingly becoming the
target of technology and intellectual property theft that has been
growing in sophistication and harmfulness...
With
industrial espionage, competitors' poaching of skilled employees,
cyberattacks and other forms of theft being rampant, the world has been
introducing stricter rules to ban theft of competitors' technologies
across borders...
Industrial espionage and cyberattacks are still
favored forms of theft, with the targets changing from conglomerates to
their subcontractors, many of them small- and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) that are often ill-equipped in terms of security and management. more