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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-you-hear-me-now? dept.

Bloomberg:

For months, Huawei Technologies Co. has faced U.S. allegations that it flouted sanctions on Iran, attempted to steal trade secrets from a business partner and has threatened to enable Chinese spying through the telecom networks it's built across the West.

Now Vodafone Group Plc has acknowledged to Bloomberg that it found vulnerabilities going back years with equipment supplied by Shenzhen-based Huawei for the carrier's Italian business. While Vodafone says the issues were resolved, the revelation may further damage the reputation of a major symbol of China's global technology prowess.

Europe's biggest phone company identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy, a system that provides internet service to millions of homes and businesses, according to Vodafone's security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 seen by Bloomberg, as well as people involved in the situation.

Only the Five Eyes, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are allowed to spy.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:55PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:55PM (#836814)
    The article freely mixes backdoors and vulnerabilities. While the former are intentional, designed for access to someone's systems, vulnerabilities are common in software and present virtually in every product on the market. Vulnerabilities are fixed once discovered; sometimes it takes several releases to fully patch a hole.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:21PM (#836835)

    3...2...1... Trump is an impending investigation again.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:04PM (#836857)

    And this is Bloomberg, that not to long ago made a big ruckus about infiltrated spying devices on Chinese made server hardware. Except that so far nobody has actually found said devices in the while and even the initial security expect claimed Bloomberg was misquoting him.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:59AM (1 child)

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:59AM (#837080)

    Bloomberg once again proving that they're the US government's useful idiots [securityboulevard.com] in their anti-China propaganda drive.

    With an emphasis on "idiots".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @06:08PM (#837444)

      Bloomberg once again proving that they're the US government's useful idiots

      No, Bloomberg is proving that they are now no better source of information than Pravda.