U.S. Seizes Counterfeit IT Equipment

More than 420,000 pieces of counterfeit IT hardware were seized at U.S. ports during May and June, reports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

It estimates it seized $1.3 million in networking equipment and hardware components at 11 different ports, reports vnunet.com. On the street, that equipment could have been sold for an estimated $3.5 million. The story warns that such equipment is more likely to fail than authentic products.

The story doesn’t say which brands the counterfeiters were trying to replicate, but they in particular seem to try to pass off Cisco products and have been successful in selling them to the U.S. military in some cases.