Found flaws in Huawei’s network equipment ten years ago: Vodafone

Huawei has been allowed to participate in the UK’s 5G network development for the non-core parts, but still Chinese telecom giant is facing difficulties to spread its network in the country. Between all of this, now there’s a new claim coming from the UK’s leading telecom that reveals Huawei equipment had some serious flaws in the past.

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Vodafone has said that it has discovered security flaws in Huawei’s network equipment ten years ago, supplied for the carrier’s Italian business while saying the issues were resolved later-on, reported Bloomberg.

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The telecom also said that it had identified hidden backdoors in the software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy, which provides internet services to millions of people.

The issues have been originally found in 2009, Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in-home internet routers in 2011 and resolved in 2014. Also, there’s no report that any users’ data was compromised in this issue.