FTC Charges Taipei Based D-Link for Inadequate Security of Computer Routers and Cameras

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint in Northern California against D-Link for putting thousands of consumers at risk over the past decade for failing to have adequate security practices in its routers and cameras.

In particular, D-Link products have well-known preventable software security flaws, including hard-coded credentials and backdoors which allow attackers the ability “to gain control of consumers’ devices.”

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