We continue to hope with the greater awareness about counterfeits that the crooks will go out of business and this problem will quietly go away. The opposite seems to be…
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Mustafa Abdul Aljaff, 32, has finally been sentenced after creating and selling counterfeit electronic components to our military and many commercial and medical companies as well. His company, MVP Micro,…
The recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 has made the accidental use of counterfeit electronic components in government equipment a much more serious offense. The law increased the…
Russia’s Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, which launched in November, has ended with a crash back to Earth. A computer malfunction, which has been linked to suspected counterfeit electronic components, is…
As we visit our customers we get questions about different methods of detection and which ONE is the best. It would be so nice if there was a litmus test…
President Obama signed the $700 billion Defense Act on New Years Eve. It is packed full of many controversial issues and one which relates directly to the semiconductor industry. Buried…
The Senate Armed Services Committee, in their latest hearing, has addressed the issue of counterfeit electronic components entering the Department of Defense’s supply chain. Chairman of the Senate Armed Forces…
When we receive parts they are inspected for over 30 different attributes to determine if they are in fact authentic. It starts with an examination of the paperwork which was…
Stephanie McCloskey, former employee of VisionTech in Clearwater Florida, has received her sentencing. She will serve 38 months for selling counterfeits to the military. This is the first federal prosecution…
A group of researchers from the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland have discovered that the use of tin plating for components used in Toyota’s…
