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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @06:55PM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @07:21PM
3...2...1... Trump is an impending investigation again.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @08:04PM
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)
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
No, Bloomberg is proving that they are now no better source of information than Pravda.