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The article offers information on the issue of counterfeit cables and assemblies in the RF market, highlighting the risks associated with using inferior products. Topics include the presence of counterfeit competitors in the market for LMR coaxial cables, the bait-and-switch technique used to sell counterfeit cables, and the risks of using counterfeit cables, such as system degradation or failure.

The article "Quality in Connection Technology" emphasizes the importance of high-quality and standardized couplings and fittings for safety in various industries. The company Lüdecke from Amberg illustrates the problem using concrete examples and presents solutions such as special safety fittings and innovative technologies. It is emphasized that high-quality and standardized components should be used to ensure safety, and that manufacturers should offer training and safety data sheets. The article describes the differences between original couplings and counterfeits and how companies can protect themselves from inferior products. Five steps for conducting product inspections are presented, including visual inspection, tolerance and material verification, functional testing, assembly/disassembly, and pressure testing. It is emphasized that inferior products can lead to safety issues and that the entire system must be replaced if defects are detected. [Extracted from the article]

Proteus deep data analytics based on UCT provides an innovative approach to supply chain security and counterfeit detection. By generating and collecting a large set of parametric measurements from each chip and uploading them to a ML-enabled, cloud-based analytics platform, a comprehensive and secured method of detection can be achieved. This allows for continuous and intrinsic tracking of ICs through the supply chain to allow for device authentication, validation and supply chain integrity. The combination of the hardware of the UCT agents, coupled with the software of the Proteus platform makes a compelling solution for defense and commercial entities concerned with counterfeit parts and supply chain security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Yutka and the Voyage of the Parita" is a gripping true story by Marcia Breece that chronicles the daring escape of Yutka Lipka, a Jewish woman, from Poland during the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. The book follows Yutka's harrowing journey to British Mandate Palestine on the SS Parita, highlighting the dangers and struggles faced by displaced families and friends. Breece's attention to depicting Jewish culture and the historical context, along with powerful imagery and personal photographs, adds depth to the narrative. The book also explores the enduring trauma and challenges faced by Jewish communities and sheds light on the significance of migration to Israel as a beacon of hope. [Extracted from the article]

Counterfeiting is a significant problem in the publishing industry, with counterfeiters posing as legitimate publishers to sell fake versions of books. These fake versions can range from poorly scanned copies to exact duplicates of the original. Counterfeit editions often appear prominently in online recommendation engines due to their lower prices. The W3C Community Group's Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force has been exploring solutions to this issue, including the adoption of the C2PA metadata standard by major companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Google. However, C2PA can be stripped out of a file, so a new standard called ISCC, which uses a content-derived hash to detect modified assets, is being developed to complement C2PA. This combination of C2PA and ISCC could provide publishers with effective tools to combat counterfeiting. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports the closure of a northern China plant producing and selling counterfeit versions of The Chemours Company's Viton FreeFlow-branded fluoroelastomer products,with authorities arresting two individuals involved in the operation,.

The article focuses on electronics counterfeiting the risks and remedies. Topics include the nature of counterfeiting in electronics is multilayered may or may not be gray goods or recycled parts has been presented as new, and the software space this could be extend to trojan programs has been intended.

Although deepfakes were recently the exclusive domain of computer scientists, the increased availability of artificial intelligence software has brought the ability to create them within the reach of ordinary consumers. Grand Moff Tarkin, the Death Star commander who destroyed the peaceful planet Alderaan in 1977's Star Wars, played perhaps the most intimidating villain of the movie, setting aside Darth Vader himself. Deepfakes differ from earlier generations of manipulated photo and video files in that they are enabled by a form of artificial intelligence (AI) known as "machine learning.". [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on the court case faced by Wattle Group founder Geoffrey Robert Dexter in Australia. Verdict of Queensland District Court; Arguments on Dexter's conviction; Variety of court trials faced by Dexter related to forgery. INSET: THE WARNING SIGNS..

Reports on the efforts of Yahoo to deal with e-mail forgery. Responsibilities of the Message Authentication Signature Standards group; Benefits of e-mail authentication via digital signatures for senders and recipients; Problems with cryptography-based solutions. INSET: Lowdown.

The article offers information on the use of infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy in determining the physical properties of various materials. Topics discussed include challenges associated with sample preparation such as analyzing a Leonardo da Vinci or Roy Lichtenstein painting; confirmed art examples of Leonardo da Vinci like Salvator Mundi; and mentions the involvement of ink analysis during the analysis of manuscript forgery.

OptiKey is an optical signature recognition system for authenticity verification that is also designed to prevent counterfeiting, copying or duplication of identification cards and documents. The system consists of a mass producible optical mask, ID label and matched optical reference mask located in the optoelectronic reader and correlator. The optical ID label is a randomly recorded optical surface structure, which is placed on labels, cards and documents. For secure validation, the optical surface structure of the label must match the optical reference mask in the correlator.

Thompson's fascinating third Counterfeit Lady novel (after 2018's City of Secrets) plays out against a backdrop of paranoia unleashed by WWI and the devastating onset of the 1918 flu pandemic. When Gideon later hears that Tom has been killed overseas, he calls on Rose, arriving just in time to save her from an attacker, but too late to keep the intruder from stealing the only legal copy of Tom's revised will. To ensure Rose gets her inheritance, Elizabeth, her dad, and a reluctant Gideon execute an elaborate long con that plays on Fred's unbridled greed. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the British government's medicines watchdog which seizes counterfeit medicines in drugs bust. It states that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has intercepted one million doses of counterfeit medicines worth over 2 million pound between October 9 and 27 such as diazepam, modafinil and dermal fillers.

This article reports that Austin, Texas printer and rare book dealer W. Thomas Taylor has questioned the authenticity of some copies of printed documents relating to the early history of Texas, as of February 1989. Four such documents are owned by the University of Houston Libraries, and Director Robin N. Downes has indicated that the university is allegedly taking an active role in the investigation. Issues surrounding forged documents will be the subject of a two-day conference sponsored by the University of Houston in October. Forgery, detection, scholarly considerations, institutional responsibilities, and tax and legal implications are some of the topics to be considered.

This article focuses on the issue of ending electronic mail forgery. Allegedly, there is a hole in SMTP big enough, which is what senders of unsolicited electronic mail messages routinely conduct when they forge sender addresses. In modern times, it is trivial to send a message that seems to come from a legal Web site address. Wether it is a publisher groping for access to a bank account or a cyberterrorist looking to compromise a personal computer, both the company whose identity is spoofed and the individual who is attacked suffer the damage. Companies that run secure Web sites know how to acquire the server certificates that assert their identities and enable SSL connections. Such companies could also use client certificates to sign electronic mail messages and probably should. But individuals rarely have or use digital certificates, so electronic mail culture has never evolved a security equivalent of the ubiquitous SSL standard of the World Wide Web. In relation to an Internet draft proposal from Hadmut Danisch, called Reverse Mail Exchange (MX), the idea is elegantly simple. In addition to publishing the Mail Exchange DNS records that identify outbound hosts, an organization also publishes reverse MX records that identify outbound hosts.

An interview with writer, essayist, and poet Bradford Morrow is presented. Topics include his first crime novel "The Forger," his interest in forgers, forgeries and the nature of history, and the ways in which his writing process in writing a crime novel differed from his writing process for other works.

The author comments on the discovery of the forged Chubb bonds which showed that individual surety is being used to cover for stealing from small and minority-owned contractors. He cites a report which stated that over 20 contractors have been defrauded by the bonds over an 18-month period and the alleged forgers not showing up in a Florida federal court where Chubb Group won a civil judgment against them. He suggests penalizing licensed insurance professionals to eliminate surety fraud.

The article reports that student dispensing optician (DO) Sakina Najfi has been given a 12-month warning by the British General Optical Council's fitness to practice committee, for forging her supervisor's signature during pre-qualification training. Najfi allegedly forged signatures on timesheets and final declaration forms between September-October 2011, while working at the optical firm Vision Express in Croydon, England, when her supervisor had already left his position.

The article discusses efforts by U.S. federal investigators to locate the source of forged surety bonds provided to Maryland prime contractor Broughton Construction Co. Topics include an order by St. Mary's County officials in Maryland to stop work on a museum and visitor's center that Broughton was building at the Patuxent Naval Air Base in St. Mary's County, details regarding what prompted the stoppage, and Broughton's possible termination from the project for default.

The article discusses a U.S. federal investigation into the source of forged fraudulent surety bonds which were allegedly provided in connection with Maryland-based prime construction contractor Broughton Construction Co.'s work on a multi-million dollar museum and visitor's center project at the Patuxent Naval Air Base in St. Mary's County, Maryland. It states that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is one of the government agencies that is investigating the forgery claims.

The article reports that Nathan Iyer, a former partner at Ince & Co., has been jailed for four years and eight months after being convicted of forgery and false accounting. It states that the attorney has admitted charges that he stole three million pounds from his firm and from clients. Iyer was sentenced to four years for false accounting and eight months for two charges of forgery.

The article discusses the Great Britain Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) case Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) v. Rahman which deals with a solicitor's forgery of letters from his former law firm in support of a fraudulent insurance claim and an alleged lenient sentence imposed by the Great Britain Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). On appeal, the court agreed that the solicitor's 12-month license suspension was too lenient.

The article presents a list of the top ten most popular stories on the website TheLawyer.com during the week of March 16-22, 2012, which includes stories on the rating of the law firm Linklaters and a forgery scandal.

The article reports that student dispensing optician Syed Mohammed Yaseen Shah has been suspended for 12 months from the British General Optical Council (GOC) due to forgery of an Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) certificate, and treating patients while unqualified.

The article provides information about a hearing to review an interim conditional registration order in respect of student optometrist Umar Abbas to be made to the British General Optical Council's (GOC's) fitness to practice committee on July 25, 2008. Abbas had conditions imposed on him for 18 months after forging reports from optometrists while studying at the Hallam Hospital in Sheffield, England.

The article reports on the technology developed by researchers at Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick in England which can be used in the fight against counterfeiting. The technology is designed to protect plastic products such as DVDs from counterfeiting. Lead researcher, materials science professor Gordon Smith, says there is increasing interest in anti-counterfeiting technology for plastic products. He adds that they are exploring its use with one company that is plagued by a counterfeit plastic-based safety critical product.

The article reports on the development of a font just one-hundredth of an inch high by Xerox scientists. This would make it harder to forge valuable documents such as personal identification papers and checks. The font uses improvements in digital printing technology. Minuscule fonts are already used by the U.S. government as an anticounterfeiting measure.

The article reports on the response of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on the growing number of nurses from mainland Europe that use falsified documents to get on the register. NMC claimed that fraudulent nurses from countries like Poland had forged exam certificates and university references. The Council had already revealed ten cheats who claimed that they had passed the International English Language Testing System.

The article informs that a client of law firm Johnson Stokes & Master (Johnson) has been cleared of forgery allegations. In a criminal trial in Hong Kong, China, Johnson has successfully defended Nina Kung, who was alleged to have forged her late husband's will to inherit his property. Prosecutors dropped charges that Kung forged the will and attempted to change the course of justice after the Court of Final Appeal absolved her in September 2005. Johnson's lawyer Brian Gilchrist led the team in the trial proceedings.

Reports that Ina Fag has warned that a deluge of counterfeit bearings could affect machine safety in widespread applications in Great Britain. Characteristics of genuine bearings; Assessment of the causes of total machine failure and safety risks; Impact of the counterfeit bearings on manufacturing.

Explains the reason behind the forging of milking machine test certificates, according to Genus Milking Systems' Mark Scrivens. Significance of testing and correcting one's parlour; Figures from Genus which show that parlours in Great Britain are failing to meet British and International Standards reflecting the lack of funds for re-investment on dairy farms; Advice given by veterinarian and mastitis specialist Peter Edmondson to farmers regarding their parlours.

A fake newspaper clipping, purporting to show anti-war activist Jane Fonda speaking next to senator John Kerry at a peace rally, was circulated on the Internet in February 2004, creating a second "Kerry-Fonda photo buzz" in the senator's presidential campaign. The forged clip was based on a legitimate and unaltered 1971 photograph of Kerry shot by photojournalist Ken Light. The fake newspaper clipping included a false headline, a fictional caption, and a counterfeit Associated Press photo credit. The fake also created some confusion about a legitimate and unaltered Kerry-Fonda photograph by photojournalist Leif Skoogfors that was widely published in newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet only days before. In the legitimate Skoogfors photograph, Kerry can be seen seated several rows behind Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1970. The public's confusion thickened as word of the forged newspaper clipping spread and many people misunderstood the facts, thinking incorrectly that the accusation of digital trickery referred to the legitimate Skoogfors photograph, and not to the forged image that was based on Light's original picture of Kerry.

Reports on the forgery, false accounting and publishing of false statement charges against Patrick Morris, former finance manager of the Milk Development Council.

Reports on the discovery of forgery in Vinland Maps, which seems to predate Christopher Columbus and shows a part of the Americas discovered by Viking explorers. Type of ink used in the map; Date of the parchment of the map.

Reports on the guilty plea of Lorraine Forrest, a former SJ Berwin assistant, to forging work permits for clients. Remarks from David Harrel, a senior partner at SJ Berwin, on how the forgeries were discovered; Sentence and fine charged to Forrest.

Reports on US advisor Frank Abagnale's warning to businesses about the use of modern technology in forgery.

Reports on the popularity of books on the Mormon forgery murder, which detail Mark Hoffman's manufacture of ancient documents and modern pipe bombs, which had the tragic effect, of laying bare, aspects of a Mormon subculture. Four publications.