Huawei. After months and months of US warnings about the problems that the Chinese company's products have, here we have a confirmation about the truth behind all the warnings. According to some information that appeared during this day, the Vodafone telecommunications group discovered in Europe the fact that some of Huawei's infrastructure and household equipment contained spying software that allowed access to the company's or users' data.
Huawei. Vodafone Italia is the telecommunications operator that discovered the fact that some routers and infrastructure equipment for telecommunications had special integrated software that allowed data interception and spying. Through these "access ports" that Huawei would have left in its equipment, the company could access the local networks of the customers who bought the routers, but also the fixed internet network of those from Vodafone Italy, without anyone knowing.
Huawei. Those from Vodafone Italy would not have discovered any evidence that customer data was accessed, but since that software exists, it is assumed that whoever accessed the data knew how to erase their traces. It seems that these "access ports" existed in Huawei equipment and beyond 2012 in products sold in Great Britain, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, and Vodafone continued to use them because it was cheaper than the competition.
Huawei. SPY Software Discovered by Vodafone
Huawei. Vodafone put its own infrastructure as well as its customers at risk of being spied on because there were too high costs to give up Chinese products, the explanation being completely unreal. Both Huawei and Vodafone claim that the problems happened in 2011 and 2012, not between 2009 and 2011, with the Chinese saying that they blocked that spying software, in the infrastructure equipment, shortly after they were be careful about its existence.
Now Vodafone Group Plc has acknowledged that it found vulnerabilities going back years with equipment supplied by Shenzhen-based Huawei for the carrier's Italian business. 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 .
Huawei. As for the routers used by consumers, although Vodafone told the Chinese to fix the problems, they refused to do so, saying it allowed them to configure the products remotely. The spy software discovered in Huawei's routers allowed not only access to customers' computers, but also information from entire computer networks, and it is easy to understand why they did not want to eliminate these problems as quickly as possible.
Huawei. Of course, in the end the Chinese company said that the existence of the spy software was a mistake, not something intentional, but at the moment no one believes the explanations without any credibility offered by the company. Since an operator as large as Vodafone Italy discovered spyware in Huawei products, questions must be asked as to why other operators did not, but also why it accepted the risk due to costs.
