A whistle-blower identified a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. The case was filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York and was handled under the False Claims Act, which specifically addresses fraud and misconduct in federal government contracts. The former contractor James Glenn, who worked in Denmark at Cisco subcontractor NetDesign, discovered several security vulnerabilities in the Cisco Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) in 2008.”]
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