Belgacom hacks and spying show the needs to strongly improve telecom security
October 25, 2013 | Posted in News | By admin
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“Several of us around the table had been subject to surveillance,” he told reporters.”The least we can expect is the countries and security services involve change their practices.”
“According to De Standaard, […] the spying was carried out by the U.S. National Security Agency and involved tracking international telephone calls for two years. It was focused on BICS, the Belgacom unit which provides wholesale telecom infrastructure services–in particular in Africa and the Middle East.”
Belgacom claims it was spied on by NSA.
Belgium latest to seek answers on spying allegations.
New report: Is Huawei in Ericsson’s shoes when Athens Affair hit?
October 18, 2013 | Posted in News | By admin
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Huawei is trying to clear its name from the allegations of spying. But is Huawei really worse and compromised than Ericsson.
Ericsson backdoored products were used by intelligence agencies to spy on Greek government officials and hundred of VIP mobile phones, yet Ericsson did not suffer from the same level of ban and bad press that Huawei did get.
Is it a cultural bias against Huawei? A political and economical against chinese manufacturer? Or the level of compromission of Huawei is much higher, prompting this reaction.
Huawei is nevertheless trying to clear its name from these allegations with the following report “Cyber Security Perspectives” by John Suffolk, Huawei SVP & Global Cyber Security Officer.
PDF Report: Huawei Cyber Security White Paper (Oct. 2013)
Huawei: We are not spying on you.
Operation Tempora: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications | UK news | The Guardian
June 21, 2013 | Posted in News | By admin
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Operation Tempora: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications.
“Britain’s spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world’s phone calls and internet traffic”.
“The sheer scale of the agency’s ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. ”
“GCHQ was handling 600m “telephone events” each day, had tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables and was able to process data from at least 46 of them at a time.”
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications | UK news | The Guardian.
Huawei routers cracked open. The best backdoor may be a plausible-looking vulnerability
October 11, 2012 | Posted in News | By admin
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Felix “FX” Lindner from Recurity / Phenoelit has found many vulnerabilities into the Huawei low-end to middle-end routers.
Huawei’s problem? It ain’t the secret backdoors but wide-open front doors | David Akin’s On the Hill.
FX’s slides on Huawei routers vulnerabilities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-K1YpJp07s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUC_FduwWxU
Huawei: Former Pentagon analyst says China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms
July 14, 2012 | Posted in News | By admin
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Allegation that Huawei and ZTE have backdoors to enable chinese covert access to telecom infrastructure.
Former Pentagon analyst: China has backdoors to 80% of telecoms | ZDNet.
Huawei and ZTE deny backdoor allegations | The Inquirer.
The Secret Ways of Little Known Chinese Telecoms Giant Huawei | SPIEGEL ONLINE.
Huawei: worried about cyber-espionage backdoors? You can look at our code | Ars Technica.
The nightmare backdoor , reflections on the case Huawei | Security Affairs.
Huawei Initiating Int’l Network Security Standards | PR site
U.S. lawmakers to American companies: Don’t do business with Huawei or ZTE | Killer Apps.
Room 641A: telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency
October 31, 2006 | Posted in News | By admin
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Room 641A: the scandal and lawsuit about a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)