On a summer evening in 2004, as the Supercomm tech conference in Chicago wound down, a middle-aged Chinese visitor began wending his way through the nearly abandoned booths, popping open million-dollar networking equipment to photograph the circuit boards inside, according to people who were there.
A security guard stopped him and confiscated memory sticks with the photos, a notebook with diagrams and data belonging to AT&T Corp. , and a list of six companies including Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp.
The man identified himself to conference staff as Zhu Yibin, an engineer. The word on his lanyard read “Weihua”—an accidental scramble, he said, of his employer’s name: Huawei Technologies Co. The next day, says Peter Heywood, a co-founder of telecoms research firm Light Reading, the engineer appeared rumpled and bewildered, saying it was his first time in the U.S. and he wasn’t familiar with Supercomm rules forbidding photography.
Huawei’s accusers describe a wide-ranging, brazen, and opportunistic appetite: the targets of the alleged thefts range from longtime tech peers, including Cisco Technology Inc., andT-Mobile US Inc., to...
The Trump administration enacted two significant items last week. One is aimed at “inbound” threats embedded in what US companies buy from China as well as other countries; the other is focused on the “outbound,” prohibiting what US companies can sell or license to a specific company, the Chinese network equipment giant Huawei. This is long overdue. The actions follow two decades of intelligence gathering and experience documenting the risk of the products and services of firms associated with the Chinese government and military, repeated trade violations, and cyberattacks, including the one on the Office of Personnel Management which compromised some 20 million personal records with sensitive information. Hearings in the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees corroborate the need for these decisive actions, including the item specifically focused on Huawei.
Last week President Trump signed an executive order Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain. This prohibits ICT transactions with foreign adversaries...
Lenovo Group Ltd. denied online speculation that it has stopped supplying its products to Huawei Technologies Co.
Supply is proceeding as usual, Lenovo said in a statement on Weibo Sunday. The computer maker will continue to sell its products and services to Huawei based on regional regulations where Lenovo operates, it added. Huawei is an important client for Lenovo’s PC and service sectors, and those who spread the false rumors are liable to legal action, it said.
Despite US action against Chinese hardware giant Huawei, fellow Chinese company Lenovo has stated that supplies of products to Huawei will not slow down in...
Speaking at a recent business conference in London, Liang explained that the company is more than willing to work together with governments including the UK to ensure its devices are secure, saying:
“We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including the UK government, to commit ourselves to making our equipment meet the no-spy, no-backdoors standard.”
Chinese tech giant Huawei stated at a recent business conference in London that the company would be willing to sign a “no-spy” agreement with national...
While everyone is focusing on the ban on selling in the US, the ban on buying US components is a much more interesting chapter of the Huawei saga.
President Donald Trump has dropped the economic dirty bomb on China and it’s dominating the headlines. Although Huawei, or China, are not mentioned in the text, the Executive Order is clearly a move to stall progress made in the telco arena. China is mounting a challenge to the US dominance in the TMT arena, and this should be viewed as a move to combat that.
Banning American manufacturers from purchasing Huawei equipment is one thing, but banning Huawei from purchasing US components opens up an even more complex chapter to...
Huawei Chairman Liang Hua is the latest to enter the fray to defend the principles and reputation of the telco vendor, this time questioning the legitimacy of accusations.
Speaking during a roundtable session in the wings of Huawei’s latest London event, Hua gave a measured representation of the firm. Once again, Hua put forward the idea of assessing technology and security on merit and evidence instead of political rhetoric, but the Huawei boss also questioned the legitimacy of accusations levelled at the vendor.
In a poorly-orchestrated attempt to defend the principles of Chinese his scandal-ridden company, Huawei Chairman Liang Hua stated during a round-table session that he is...
The 5G wireless technology now being introduced by phone companies promises to bring a world of innovations to mobile service — from connected appliances to self-driving cars — just as cable transformed TV generations ago with hundreds of new channels. It also promises to bring a new global round of technology competition — one that overlaps with arguments over security that have pitted the U.S. against China and have raised tensions in the industry, to the dismay of telecom executives who fear that 5G’s rollout could be delayed.
The roll-out of 5G technology is stirring concerns over Chinese espionage on international networks as Chinese companies with long histories of spying populate the low-cost...
In 2013, Atawula downloaded WeChat, the Chinese social messaging app. Not long after, rumors circulated among her friends: The government could track your location through your phone. At first, she didn’t believe them.
The breadth of the Chinese surveillance state is unnerving, violating citizen’s basic civil liberties and privacy for the sake of federal government monitoring. A case...
Taiwan is widening its crackdown on government procurement of Chinese technology to servers, cloud computing and other services and equipment, which is expected to include Alibaba Group Holding, Huawei Technologies, Lenovo Group and Xiaomi, citing security risks.
Taiwan has joined the wave of countries banning Chinese telecommunications equipment from their networks, drafting a blacklist of products, companies and consultants the telecom industry...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission barred China Mobile Ltd.from the U.S. market over national security concerns and said it was opening a review of other Chinese companies amid friction between the world’s biggest economies.
