straycat19 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued Taiwan-based D-link in federal court. The FTC alleges that D-link routers and webcams left "thousands of consumers at risk" to hacking attacks. "Defendants have failed to take reasonable steps to protect their routers and IP cameras from widely known and reasonably foreseeable risks of unauthorized access, including by failing to protect against flaws which the Open Web Application Security Project has ranked among the most critical and widespread web application vulnerabilities since at least 2007," the FTC said in a complaint (PDF) filed in San Francisco federal court. The commission's move comes 11 months after the agency settled with Asus over its insecure routers that allowed attackers to remotely log in to them and, depending on user configurations, change security settings or access files stored on connected devices. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pequi Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 And yet Cisco, accused of deliberate backdoors, tax evasion, fraud, breaking copyright laws, monitoring users etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco#Controversies Gets away scot-free ..... Literally - did you know that a "scot" was the name of an ancient tax, and scot-free literally means "tax-free" or tax-evading ? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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