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Huawei’s Secret Back Doors
« on: June 27, 2019, 11:28:20 pm »
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/26/chinas-back-doors-in-huawei-devices/

by Bill Gertz
June 26, 2019

An investigation of the telecommunications equipment produced by China’s Huawei Technologies Ltd. has uncovered numerous cases of secret access points that could allow Chinese intelligence to conduct cyberoperations through the equipment.

Finite State, a cybersecurity research firm, conducted a survey of Huawei equipment and discovered that 55% of Huawei hardware devices it tested contained at least one backdoor access point.

The vulnerabilities in Huawei products pose serious security threats of cyberattack and data exfiltration if the equipment is used, according to Finite’s report on Huawei published Wednesday.

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