Gun Found at Evolv School Mega-Customer
A school district that has paid more than $15 million for Evolv is investigating how a gun found was not detected by Evolv. IPVM spoke with...
By Conor Healy - 3 months ago
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Dahua Fined ~$5.5M For Anti-Competitive Practices in Poland
While Dahua has been banned in numerous locations, this is the first major fine publicly disclosed against the company. This report examines...
By William Howard-Waddingham - 3 months ago
Verkada Settles Salesperson Class Action Lawsuit For $5.9 Million
Verkada's growth has been fueled by its "Verkademy" and legions of entry-level salespeople, but last year, those tactics led to a former employee...
By Christie Smythe - 3 months ago
Worst Camera Manufacturers 2024
For over a decade, IPVM has tracked integrators' "worst" camera experiences. Now, several veteran manufacturers have been selected / appear for...
By IPVM Team - 3 months ago
Evolv Reduces False Alarms On Eyeglass Cases, Claims Motorola
Evolv has false alerts on many benign objects. However, documents published (now deleted) by its partner, Motorola, claim that the nuisance alarms...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 3 months ago
Inside HID's $45 Million Legal Win Against Competitor Vector Flow
It is atypical for corporate litigation go to trial, but HID has won a very sizeable judgement against competitor Vector Flow, founded by former...
By William Howard-Waddingham and Jermaine Wilson - 3 months ago
City Sued Over Multiple Erroneous Flock LPR Camera-Based Stops
Three individuals — two whose license plate was allegedly misread by a Flock Safety LPR camera and a third whose vehicle was allegedly mistaken...
By Christie Smythe - 3 months ago
Evolv CEO Calls Metal Detectors "Dumb": The Problem Of "Alert Fatigue"
False "alert fatigue" is a real problem with weapons screening, something that Evolv's CEO called out metal detectors for in a recent investor...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 3 months ago
HID Competitor Implores "REPLACE THE READER"
Only three months after Wavelynx was acquired / invested in by a large private equity firm and days after HID released a "major, mandatory...
By Brian Rhodes - 3 months ago
Rhombus Claimed "Out Perform Other Providers Across All Metrics"
With Rhombus growing fast and partially opening up, the company has attempted to differentiate itself from VSaaS competitors in marketing, with...
By William Howard-Waddingham - 3 months ago
Evolv CEO: "Thank Goodness Nothing Tragic Has Happened Yet But It's Probably Just A Matter Of Time"
Despite currently being sued by a student stabbed by a weapon not detected by Evolv, Evolv told investors "nothing tragic has happened yet" and...
By Nikita Ermolaev - 4 months ago
Halo Cloud Mobile App Tested
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By Katie Ferry and John Scanlan - 4 months ago
Hikvision Treasury Sanctions "Can't Be Done", Says Congressional Chair
A year and a half after Hikvision started preparing for severe US Treasury sanctions, they are not coming, according to recent remarks by a...
By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 4 months ago
"Hacktivist" Targets Fusus, Publishes Map Of Locations
Fusus is growing and gaining significant attention and some criticism. A self-described "hacktivist" obtained data on 100+ Fusus customer...
By Conor Healy - 4 months ago
Ubiquiti Aims To Fix Support Problems With "Professional Support"
Ubiquiti is famous for being incredibly difficult to talk to a human being. While their pricing is quite low and the company is generally...
By Jermaine Wilson - 4 months ago
Motorola Releases, Then Removes, Evolv's Allegedly Sensitive "Modified Sensitivity"
Evolv has struggled to stop the media from reporting on its false alarm problems, now going so far as a new "modified sensitivity" setting / hack...
By Conor Healy - 4 months ago
Dahua Launders Reputation Countering Human Rights Abuses
For years, Dahua has refused to acknowledge designing "Uyghur warnings" for police and Xinjiang mass surveillance, which the UN deemed a "highly...
By Conor Healy - 4 months ago
Eagle Eye Vs Verkada
Verkada is now worth billions of dollars and has popularized the Hostage as a Service (HaaS) model. Now, Eagle Eye's CEO, Dean Drako, has publicly...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
Flock Warns Custom Hot Lists Are Not Probable Cause
Highlighting the risk of misusing custom LPR hot lists, Flock Safety has cautioned law enforcement against making arrests exclusively based on...
By Christie Smythe - 4 months ago
VSaaS Free Trial Offers Are Misleading - Avigilon, Eagle Eye, Meraki, Rhombus, Verkada
While Verkada's practice of sending free trial users to collections is shocking - and has even impacted an airport - the issue of VSaaS companies...
By William Howard-Waddingham - 4 months ago
Dahua Partner Arrested For Alleged $15 Million NDAA Fraud Relabelling Dahua
The US Department of Justice has filed criminal fraud charges against a video surveillance seller over allegedly misrepresenting millions in...
By Conor Healy - 4 months ago
Ex-Verkada Partner Reliant IT Files For Bankruptcy
Reliant IT, founded by a man convicted for an $11 million fraud, grew quickly, fueled by sales and promotion of Verkada products in the last four...
By Charles Rollet - 4 months ago
Customer Claims ADT Admitted "Obvious Mistake," Lawsuit Sent to Arbitration
An ADT customer whose home security system failed to alert him to a burglary will not be able to sue the company for damages in court, and he must...
By Christie Smythe - 4 months ago
HID Touts "Signo = Security” Despite Critical Vulnerabilities
While HID markets "Signo = Security" and that "security comes first," HID obscures and features critical unfixed vulnerabilities both for low...
By William Howard-Waddingham - 4 months ago
School Shooting Investigation Names Admins, Including Now Evolv Marketing Director, For "Failure And Responsibility By Omission"
While a school shooting investigation named 5 Oxford, MI school officials, including a now Evolv marketing director, as contributing to "failure"...
By IPVM Team - 4 months ago
