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Y Purdy, CSO for Huawei USA, believes the US needs to be more active in the development of global security standards rather than being aloof. "The US has fundamentally dropped the ball when it comes to participation in global security standards," Purdy told The Register.
Huawei has decided to school America on cyber-security, and its lesson is to co-operate with China so its vendors - including Huawei - can be trusted around the world. Purdy, a former White House adviser on cyber security, makes some decent points - especially when pointing out that the Executive Order is only binding on federal agencies and their private sector suppliers.
Huawei launched a series of 5G products and solutions oriented to "1+N" 5G target networks. Supercharged by innovation, these products and solutions will help promote multi-antenna technology to all bands and all scenarios to build leading 5G networks.
Huawei has opened another cyber security centre and, despite facing a crisis of trust in the West, has chosen to do so for the first time in its Chinese heartland. Perhaps timely, Huawei's security baseline includes incident response procedures, with security patching a feature of a product's long-term maintenance.
Huawei has belatedly fixed an embarrassing vulnerability in a USB connectivity dongle, spotted by Trustwave, after The Register intervened. When infosec firm Trustwave's Spiderlabs division took a closer look at the stick last year, its researchers found a security blunder that affects macOS users: the USB stick acts as a storage drive that includes software to install to manage the dongle.
This week, a Trustwave security researcher disclosed a privilege escalation flaw in Huawei's USB LTE dongles. Huawei LTE driver autoruns with maximum permissions.
Ten variants of the Joker Android Trojan managed to slip into the Huawei AppGallery app store and were downloaded by more than 538,000 users, according to new data from Russian anti-malware vendor Doctor Web. Also known as Bread, the Joker Trojan was first observed in 2017 when it was originally focused on SMS fraud.
More than 500,000 Huawei users have downloaded from the company's official Android store applications infected with Joker malware that subscribes to premium mobile services. These ten apps were downloaded by more than 538,000 Huawei users, Doctor Web says.
Huawei promised to make any room a data center as it outlined a new, smart modular data center solution for small and edge computing scenarios, including three data center products - FusionModule2000, FusionModule800, and FusionModule500 - designed for different industrial needs. Key to the Smart Modular Data Solution, SmartLi UPS - Huawei's smart lithium battery UPS - helps enterprises of all sizes turn any room into a data center.
US regulators on Friday listed Huawei among Chinese telecom gear firms deemed a threat to national security, signaling that a hoped for softening of relations is not in the cards. A roster of communications companies thought to pose "An unacceptable risk" to national security included Huawei Technologies; ZTE; Hytera Communications; Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology.