Huawei is at the center of an extremely important announcement today, and this is because a major problem that has been talked about in recent months has finally been confirmed, and it is one that everyone should know about. More precisely, government IT security experts from Great Britain discovered that the telecommunications equipment sold by Huawei really has security problems.
Huawei would use in its telecommunications equipment software for which numerous security problems were discovered, of a high severity, the experts of the British government saying that this is a major problem for the telecommunications infrastructure of the country. They say that the vulnerabilities discovered in Huawei's software force telecommunications companies to constantly solve the security problems of telecommunications equipment, being at risk when they don't do it.
Huawei: HUGE PROBLEM, the announcement that confirms all fears
Huawei has always denied that its equipment has problems, but experts from Great Britain also discovered an extremely serious vulnerability, which endangered the country's national security. When that problem was discovered, the authorities in Great Britain first notified the telecommunications companies in the country, and only then Huawei, to ensure that the problem is solved before the Chinese company knows what is happening with the situation there.
“HCSEC activity continued to identify issues with Huawei's approach to software development, bringing a significantly increased risk to UK operators, which requires ongoing management and mitigation. The growing number and severity of vulnerabilities discovered, along with architectural and construction issues, by the relatively small HCSEC team is of particular concern. In rare circumstances where the impact of the vulnerability is of national importance, the release of full details of the vulnerability to Huawei may be delayed to allow the UK community to assess and mitigate the impact. Sustained evidence of poor coding practices was found, including evidence that Huawei continues to breach its own internal secure coding guidelines.”
Huawei would have developed a software with poorly written code, based on its own security rules, not the ones demanded by the countries of the European Union, and not only that, avoiding to improve its standards over the years, despite repeated requests. Huawei has solved some of the vulnerabilities discovered by the authorities, but they say that in the case of the one that affects national security, solving the problem has brought another one, the experts coming to the conclusion that the Chinese company cannot be expected to correctly solve the deficiencies.
Huawei so far she has not said anything about this situation, so it remains to be seen what she will say, but most likely she will deny everything that those in the UK say, as has happened in every situation when problems of this kind have come to light .
