Networking vendor D-Link, which this week was sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over alleged security issues in its routers and IP cameras, blasted the FTC for insinuating potential security issues rather than pointing out specific instances where customer privacy was breached.
The FTC filed a complaint in the Northern District of California on Thursday which charged Taiwan-based D-Link and D-Link Systems, its Fountain Valley, Calif.-based U.S. subsidiary, with failing to take “reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras” and possibly compromising sensitive consumer information “including live video and audio feeds from D-Link IP cameras.”
According to the FTC, D-Link failed to take steps to address “well-known and easily preventable security flaws.”
