Amazon
- 🚩 Amazon Ring was accused of privacy violations, where employees spied on female customers by accessing their cameras without permissions. They settled the case.
- Sources: www.reuters.com
- Defense: They said "While we disagree with the FTC's claims regarding both Alexa and Ring, and deny violating the law, these settlements put these matters behind us."
Categories: electronics
Apple
- 🚩 Apple slowed down older iPhones (a.k.a. "Batterygate")
- Sources: www.washingtonpost.com
- Defense: They say that they did it so that older devices don't shut down unexpectedly or experience other malfunctions due to excessive demands on their dated batteries
Categories: electronics
HP (Hewlett-Packard)
- 🚩 HP issued a firmware update which blocks customers from using cheaper, non-HP ink cartridges in its printers
- Sources: www.telegraph.co.uk
- Defense: They say that third-party cartridges that contain non-HP chips can pose risks to the hardware performance, print quality, and security
Categories: electronics
Lenovo
- 🚩 Lenovo preinstalled software on their laptops that intercepted and decrypted users' web traffic, as well as allowed malicious actors to spoof any website the users visited
- Sources: www.cisa.gov, en.wikipedia.org, support.lenovo.com
- Defense: They say that a third-party add-on introduced a potential vulnerability that they did not know about
- 🚩 Lenovo shipped laptops with a driver named "SecureBackDoor" that could be exploited to deploy flash implants and circumvent secure boot
- Sources: www.techradar.com, www.zdnet.com, www.eset.com (they found the issue), support.lenovo.com
- Defense: They say that one driver was mistakenly included in the BIOS image, and another was mistakenly not deactivated
Categories: electronics
Samsung
- 🚩 Samsung had to recall the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone because of a battery defect that could cause the phone to catch fire or explode. After issueing replacement phones these had to be recalled as well for the same reason.
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Categories: electronics
Siemens
- 🚩 Siemens is accused of bribing Greek government officials to win state contracts
- Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Categories: electronics