GettyOn Tuesday, Vodafone, Europe's largest phone company, "acknowledged that it found vulnerabilities going back years with equipment supplied by Huawei for the carrier’s Italian business." This is the first time a Huawei security issue of this severity has been made public. Vodafone 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 Bloomberg's unnamed sources, the Huawei security issues found in Vodafone's Italian business were also found in the U.K., Germany, Spain and Portugal. We can't compete with Chinese technology because the playing field is anything but level.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2019 08:03 UTC