Paul Jarski, product development manufacturing leader at Case New Holland (CNH), discusses his extensive experience with counterfeit electronics throughout his career. He highlights the challenges faced during market allocations, where counterfeit parts infiltrated supply chains and causing significant issues.

Two men were sentenced yesterday for participating in a scheme to defraud Apple Inc. (Apple) out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones. Haotian Sun, 34, a Chinese citizen residing in Baltimore, was sentenced to 57 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,072,200 in restitution to Apple and a forfeiture money judgment of $53,610.

On September 30, 2024, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced the expansion of the Validated End User (“VEU”) program to include data centers (the “Final Rule”).[1] This expansion is intended to facilitate the quick and reliable export or reexport of items on the Commerce Control List...

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), representing 45,000 port workers, commenced a strike today, impacting 30+ seaports from Maine to Texas. Some economists estimate the work stoppage could cost the U.S. economy $5 billion per day, while others say the measure of the impact depends on how long ports are closed.

By just looking at a picture sent to his iPhone of a large solar battery, Phillip December could tell why his client was having problems with his solar system. “The battery is fake. Get another one if you can,” he wrote in a WhatsApp response to the query from his client based in Mutoko, a rural area some 150 km northeast of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital.

Rick Smith is vice president of business development at ERAI, an organization founded in 1995 as a watchdog for the electronic component distribution section, aiming to combat bad business practices and counterfeiting. Rick definitely has some stories to tell about the hows and whys of counterfeiting, and breaks down some compelling numbers when it comes to fake parts being sold into the open market.

Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech supply chain potentially starved of an ingredient vital for making microchips.

Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Engineering have developed a patent-pending optical counterfeit detection method for chips used in semiconductor devices. The Purdue method is called RAPTOR, or residual attention-based processing of tampered optical responses. It leverages deep learning to identify tampering.

Less than five days remain before the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA’s) current contract expires and, most likely, a large-scale strike begins. The ILA and U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) have not met face to face since June and remain far apart on key issues like wage increases and port automation.

Recent incidents in Lebanon involving pagers have highlighted alarming security vulnerabilities in the electronic supply chain. These are not just ordinary communication devices – the scale and precision of certain malfunctions suggest something far more deliberate. Devices like this don't just explode with such intensity and coordination on their own.