Cisco Settles for $6M With 19 AGs Over Security Software Flaws, Failures
Cisco Systems will pay $6 million for allegedly failing for years to secure known flaws in its security surveillance software, under a settlement with 19 state attorneys general. The AGs claim Cisco discovered the security flaw in 2009 but failed…
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to correct it until 2013, after a multistate investigation was opened. The software was sold to New York, other states and the federal government, New York AG Letitia James said Thursday: “The now-discontinued software contained flaws that would permit unauthorized access to the system, with the potential to control and otherwise manipulate security cameras and the recorded footage.” Other jurisdictions involved in the probe: California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia and the District of Columbia.