Chinese research institutes recently acquired high-end Nvidia artificial intelligence chips through resellers. According to Reuters 10 Chinese entities obtained advanced Nvidia chips in server products made by Super Micro Computer Inc, Dell technologies and Taiwan's Gigabyte technology Inc The chips acquired are apparently some...

The United States Department of Justice notified the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that it is intervening in a False Claims Act case filed against Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) by its Associate Director of Cybersecurity and former Principal Information Security Engineer (the...

SCG Plastics, a Thai company will pay about $20 million to settle allegations it used the U.S. financial system to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for products made in Iran, in violation of U.S. sanctions, according to the Wall street Journal.https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-fines-thai-company-scg-plastics-20-million-over-alleged-iran-sanctions-violations-537df255?mod=hp_minor_pos10

A Colombian national was extradited from Chile to the United States yesterday to face charges related to kidnapping and assaulting two U.S. Army soldiers who were on temporary duty in Bogota, Colombia. Pedro Jose Silva Ochoa, also known as...

The Department of Justice criminal division will give a grant of immunity to certain executives and other employees who render information about corporate illegality--even if they were involved in the wrongdoing. The program, which is effective as of April 15, has no set time frame for expiration.

An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Syria national Mohamad Deiry and Lebanese national Samer Rayya, both principals of an Iraq-based arms company, Black Shield Ltd., with conspiring to export munitions from the United States to Sudan and Iraq without the necessary licenses and approvals, in violation of the...

Dutch-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia was victim of a hacking attack by cyber criminals last month, the Chinese-owned company said on Friday, and was investigating the incident with the help of outside specialists. According to RTL, the stolen information include trade secrets, chip designs,...

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against five registered investment advisers for Marketing Rule violations. All five firms have agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and to pay $200,000 in combined penalties. The...

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian hackers have used Microsoft's  email system to steal correspondence between officials. The agency said hackers were exploiting authentication details shared by email to try to break into Microsoft's customer systems, including those of an unspecified number of government agencies.

A federal jury has convicted a California man this week for insider trading. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Shahriyar Bolandian, 35, of Brentwood, Los Angeles, participated in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $650,000 in illicit profits. Between 2012 and...