Security Documents & IT

• Nanotech and Hueck Folien unveil banknote security alliance

  19-Nov-15 - Nanotech Security and Hueck Folien say they will work together on optical thin film banknote security features.

• Casino chip forger gets five years in jail

  24-Oct-15 - A US man who brought counterfeit casino chips to a poker tournament gets a five-year prison term.

• Firm accused of US mutilated coin return scam bites back

  20-Oct-15 - Company at the centre of counterfeit coin return allegations in the US asks for charges to be dropped.

• YPB wins contract for passport security tech

  19-Oct-15 - YPB announces a major new conract to supply its anti-counterfeiting technology for use in passports.

• Head of dollar counterfeiting ring gets 15 years

  24-Sep-15 - The man in charge of a network responsible for faking an estimated $70m in US bills gets 15 years in prison.

• New approach for QR code watermarking proposed

  18-Sep-15 - Researchers in China say they have developed a new, more robust watermarking tech for printed QR codes.

• Patent watch: Dainippon takes group approach to taggants

  14-Sep-15 - Dainippon gets US patent on taggants in inks, toner and other media that it says are harder to fake.

• YPB ships tracer tech to Chinese bank

  31-Aug-15 - YPB has started to supply tracer and scanners for the protection of deposit certificates for one of China's top banks.

• Warning over fake Rugby World Cup tickets

  31-Aug-15 - Fans seeking tickets for the Rugby World Cup 2015 should 'buy official' to avoid being duped by counterfeiters.

• Taylor Swift concertgoers warned of fake tickets

  31-Aug-15 - Reports are circulating that some tickets for Taylor Swift's concert next weekend in Denver are counterfeit.

• Counterfeit dollars seized in Miami

  26-Aug-15 - US customs has intercepted $228,100 in counterfeit dollar bills arriving at Miami in a package from Peru

• Windows 10 could de-activate fake software and hardware

  17-Aug-15 - Windows 10 may force-feed updates to your PC which disable unauthorised hardware and counterfeit games.

• China to launch harder-to-copy 100 yuan note

  11-Aug-15 - China's state bank will introduce a new 100-yuan bank note from November 12 that will be harder to fake.

• UK seeks stiffer penalties for online pirates

  21-Jul-15 - The UK plans to increase the top sentence for commercial online copyright infringement from two to 10 years in jail.

• Counterfeit euro banknotes dip in first half, says ECB

  17-Jul-15 - European Central Bank says 450,000 fake euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in the first half of 2015.

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