The FTC (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) is getting really fed up with the router manufacturers, and now it’s taking D-Link to court. Back in February 2016, the FTC punished ASUS for selling consumer routers that had major security flaws. Now, the FTC is suing D-Link for failing to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol […]
Category: FTC
Asus Receives Penalty From FTC for Poor Router Security
These are the words of Jessica Rich, the Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection as part of a release detailing the resolution of the FTC’s settlement with Asus over their sale of consumer routers that had major security flaws. Saying that home routers have security flaws is really nothing new, our […]