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The Failure of Security Robotics 1.0 Analyzed

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By John Honovich and Mert Karakaya - 5 days ago

Directory of Video Surveillance Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities have escalated over the past few years and keeping track of who is impacted by each can be difficult. This list,...

By IPVM Team - 25 days ago

ZeroEyes' False Alert Causing A School Lockdown Examined

While ZeroEyes has a 24/7 operation center reviewing alerts before passing them to its customers, a Texas school district had a lockdown caused by...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 months ago

Aiphone Phone/Email Down For 7 Days

Major intercom manufacturer Aiphone has experienced a weeklong phone and email outage, raising concerns over what happened. Inside, we...

By Ethan Ace - 9 months ago

"Verkada Is Not Working!!" Exclaims NJ High School Dean

Ongoing Verkada outages at an NJ school resulted in a frustrated dean exclaiming "Verkada is not working!!" in a frantic email to district IT staff...

By Donald Maye - over 1 year ago

Resideo: Not Hacking, Environmental Issue Caused Mass Outage

A mass outage of Resideo / Honeywell Home's Alarment service has caused major problems and conspiracy theories touted by Ken Kirschenbaum and Peter...

By John Honovich - about 2 years ago

Latin America Deployments Plagued by Broken Cameras

Broken, defective, or otherwise inoperative cameras are plaguing large video surveillance deployments in at least three Latin American countries,...

By Robert Wren Gordon - about 2 years ago

Axis "Experiencing An IT-Related Attack"

Axis's website and other online services have been offline for more than 24 hours with Axis confirming to IPVM that they are "experiencing an...

By John Scanlan - about 2 years ago

Vandal Resistance/IK Rating Guide

"Vandal-proof" is a term often used by manufacturers to market their products, but the reality is that these specifications are mostly...

By Ethan Ace and Ilya Ignatenko - over 2 years ago

HiveWatch Next-Gen PSIM Raises $20 Million Led By Ex-Twitter Execs

PSIM failed a decade ago but with the cloud and SaaS becoming mainstream, can LA-based startup HiveWatch benefit from these trends in the...

By Robert Wren Gordon and John Honovich - over 2 years ago

Hikvision Has "Highest Level of Critical Vulnerability," Impacting 100+ Million Devices

Hikvision has admitted a 9.8 vulnerability that is "the highest level of critical vulnerability—a zero-click unauthenticated remote code execution"...

By John Honovich - over 2 years ago

ADT Fires Employee for Failure to Send Alarm, Refuses to Pay Damages

ADT apologized and fired an employee whose error resulted in a home being flooded, causing alleged damages of ~$1.6 million. However, ADT is now...

By Isabella Cheng - almost 3 years ago

Jeweler's ADT Security System Failed, "Entire Business Was Robbed and Destroyed", Sues ADT [Now Settling]

A jewelry store alleges it was "robbed and destroyed" after its ADT silent alarm failed to go off during a break-in, the second failure in 7...

By Isabella Cheng - almost 3 years ago

SecuriThings Raises $14 Million For IoT / IP Camera Cybersecurity (2021)

SecuriThings has raised $14 million, aiming to deliver a platform for securing and managing IoT devices, such as IP cameras. But how likely are...

By IPVM Team - about 3 years ago

Arecont Vision Favorability Statistics 2021

Arecont Vision was one of the biggest failures of the 2010s but acquired by Costar in 2018, has integrator sentiment towards Arecont...

By Ethan Ace - about 3 years ago

Worst Camera Manufacturers 2020

Which camera manufacturer have integrators had the worst experience with in the past year? 200+ integrators told us. 200+ integrators...

By IPVM Team - almost 4 years ago

Latest London Police Facial Recognition Suffers Serious Issues

On February 20, IPVM visited another live face rec deployment by London police, but this time the system was thwarted by technical problems and...

By Kayleigh Long, Sean Patton, and Charles Rollet - about 4 years ago

Access Control Time & Attendance Guide

Access control systems can do more than lock doors. With little or no extra equipment, they can be used to track labor hours for employees...

By Brian Rhodes - over 4 years ago

"New" Arecont Fixes Failures "Without A Fight"

The "old" Arecont was infamous not only for its camera failures but for making their "partners" fight to get them fixed. IPVM drew the ire of...

By IPVM Team - almost 5 years ago

IBM Shuts Down "Intelligent Video Analytics" [Update: New Video Analytics Offered]

Abruptly, IBM has discontinued its Intelligent Video Analytics solution, it confirmed to IPVM. IBM's video analytics have faced recent media...

By Charles Rollet - almost 5 years ago

Arecont Favorability Results 2019

Arecont's net negativity remained the same in IPVM's 2019 integrator study, though integrator's feeling became relatively more neutral compared to...

By IPVM Team - about 5 years ago

Dahua Intercom Tested