Cisco announced on March 15, 2012 that it is acquiring NDS Group for a $ 5B.

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In 1999 Tandberg Television entered into a £ 170 million agreement to acquire all the assets of NDS Group ’ s Digital-TV products business, the Digital Broadcasting Business ( DBB ), a subsidiary of The News Corporation group.

* NDS Group, a company specializing in television technology, including digital rights management

** NDS is also used as shorthand for Videoguard, the encryption system created by NDS Group

NDS Group Ltd. ( Formerly traded as NASDAQ: NNDS ) develops software solutions for the pay TV industry.

* On March 15, 2012, Cisco ( NASDAQ: CSCO ) announced its intent to acquire NDS Group Ltd.

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The countermeasure employed by NDS Group, the designers of the VideoCrypt system was to issue a new smartcard ( known as the Sky 10 card ) that included an ASIC in addition to the card's microcontroller.

The suit alleged that competitor NDS Group had maliciously used reverse engineering to obtain the computer programs contained within various pay-TV smartcards ( including SECA and Nagra cards ) and allowed the results had been posted to Internet sites such as the notorious DR7. com.

Ironically the NDS Group were accused ( in several lawsuits ) by Canal + ( dismissed ) and Echostar ( now DishNetwork ) of hacking the Nagra encryption and releasing the information on the internet.

, six manufacturers have multi-stream CableCARDs ( M-CARDS ) qualified by CableLabs: Motorola, Cisco ( formerly Scientific Atlanta ), NDS Group, Conax USA, Inc., Evolution Broadband., and Nagravision ( Kudelski Group ).

Some channels on 2D are encrypted with Videoguard ( a proprietary encryption method by the NDS Group ) and only Sky Digiboxes with valid cards, or standard hardware with non-approved ( with respect to the Sky / NDS end-user contract ) " Dragon ", or " T-Rex " Conditional Access Modules can decode these channels.

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Other legal action by Echostar / NagraStar was being pursued as late as August 2005 accusing NDS of the same wrongdoing.

In 2008, NDS was found to have broken piracy laws by hacking EchoStar Communications ’ smart card system, however only $ 1, 500 in statutory damages were awarded.

As recent as October 2011, while Karzai was visiting India to sign an important strategic partnership agreement with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Afghan agents of the National Directorate of Security ( NDS ) arrested 6 people in Kabul for planning to assassinate Karzai.

One of Novell's major innovations at the time was Novell Directory Services ( NDS ), now known as eDirectory.

An original game for the Nintendo DS, Dr. Reiner Knizia's Brainbenders was published in 2008 ; Keltis for the NDS followed in 2009.

NDS was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company.

** In February 2011, Orbis Technology was sold by NDS for £ 208m, in a management buyout backed by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners.

In 1996, NDS was investigated by Israeli authorities for allegations of tax irregularities.

None was proven but NDS later paid a $ 3m settlement to close the case.

EchoStar alleged that in the 90 ’ s NDS was responsible for the compromise of EchoStar ’ s satellite television programming platform through the posting of code on the DR7 website.

In August 2010, the Ninth Circuit stated in its decision that “ EchoStar did not succeed ' on any significant issue ' or ' achieve any of the benefit it sought in bringing suit ' under the Communications Act .” The Ninth Circuit awarded NDS US $ 18 million and concluded that “ There is no question that NDS successfully defended against all of EchoStar ’ s claims based on or related to its theory that NDS was responsible for the compromise of EchoStar ’ s satellite television programming security system .”

In February 2011, the Ninth Circuit further stated, “ NDS was the prevailing party in this litigation and that EchoStar fails to meet the legal definition of a prevailing party on any of its claims .”

The accusations arise from emails obtained by the BBC, and an interview with Lee Gibling, the operator of a hacking website, who claims he was paid up to £ 60, 000 per year by Ray Adams, NDS head of security.

The investigation by the paper alleges that NDS illegally undermined rivals Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when parent company News Corporation was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry.

On May 15, 2008 a jury in the Echostar vs NDS civil lawsuit ( 8: 2003cv00950 ) awarded Echostar just over $ 1500 USD in damages, Echostar original sought 1 billion in damages from NDS however a jury was not convinced of the allegations Echostar had made against NDS and awarded damages only for the factual claims that were proven and for which the jury believed an award should be given in accordance with the laws of the United States.

Mullen was sentenced to seven years prison with no parole and ordered to pay DirecTV and smart card provider NDS Ltd. US $ 24 million in restitution.

It was released for the PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, GBA, NDS, and Wii.

Already in use in America since 1997, the VideoGuard system was introduced to the UK by NDS in 1998 with the launch of Sky Digital, replacing the VideoCrypt system ( also supplied by NDS ) in use on Sky's analogue broadcasts.

In 1996, the project's developers were hired by Netscape Communications Corporation and the project became known as the Netscape Directory Server ( NDS ).

Canal + brought a lawsuit against News Corporation alleging that they, with the help of NDS, had been working on breaking the MediaGuard smartcards used by Canal +, ITV Digital and other non-Murdoch-owned TV companies throughout Europe.

In 2009, Permira and News Corporation announced a $ 3. 6 billion arrangement for buying the public holding in NDS, turning it into a privately held company.

It is used on digital satellite television systems-some of which are operated by News Corporation, which owns about half ( 49 %) of NDS.

Grossman and Tuckerman demonstrated the attack on a weak block cipher named New Data Seal ( NDS ).

On 2008-05-15 a jury in California convicted NDS of violating the Federal Communications Act and California Penal Code, cleared NDS of other charges, and awarded $ 1, 500 in damages.