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EGeezer
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EGeezer

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Huawei security - back doors or inadvertent errors?

It could be both. Only the vendor knows what was in the minds of its architects and developers.

As the chart in the article notes, Huawei isn't the only vendor with vulnerabilities. However, having hard coded credentials in its products is a pretty good indication that something could be amiss in Huawei-land, especially since issues in 2011 apparently hadn't been resolved;
said by page 5 of the Finite-state report :

... Bloomberg further reported that Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in home internet routers in 2011 and received assurances from the supplier that the issues were fixed, but further testing revealed that the security vulnerabilities remained. Vodafone also identified backdoors in parts of its fixed-access network known as optical service nodes, which are responsible for transporting internet traffic over optical fibers, and other parts called broadband network gateways, which handle subscriber authentication and access to the internet. “Vulnerabilities in both the routers and the fixed access network remained beyond 2012 and were also present in Vodafone’s businesses in the U.K., Germany, Spain and Portugal.” ...



»www.securityweek.com/man ··· nt-study

Here's the link to the Finite-State white paper report that was the basis for the above Security Week article, It focuses on supply chain issues;

»finitestate.io/wp-conten ··· inal.pdf

Snowy
Lock him up!!!
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join:2003-04-05
Kailua, HI

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Snowy

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Didn't you get the memo?
Back doors are good for the US economy.
»www.bloomberg.com/news/a ··· uppliers