Huawei equipment found to have 'significant' security flaws, says U.K. report

Chinese tech company Huawei has been under fire recently in the U.S. over security concerns, just it's the U.K. that is at present raising the alarm of "significant" security flaws in the company's products. In a new report published this calendar week by the U.K.'s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) (via CNBC), the group found "significant technical issues have been identified in Huawei'due south technology processes, leading to new risks in the UK telecommunications networks"

Further, the study states that Huawei has made "no fabric progress" in addressing problems raised in its previous 2022 report.

"The Oversight Board advises that it will be hard to accordingly risk-manage future products in the context of Great britain deployments, until the underlying defects in Huawei's software engineering and cyber security processes are remediated" the 47-page report said in a summary of its findings. "Overall, the Oversight Board tin only provide limited assurance that all risks to UK national security from Huawei'southward involvement in the UK'southward disquisitional networks tin can be sufficiently mitigated long-term."

The HCSEC doesn't recommend a ban on Huawei's telecommunication equipment, which may be pivotal as the infrastructure for 5G begins to roll out across the earth. Further, the U.1000.'southward National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) stated that it "does not believe that the defects identified are a upshot of Chinese state interference."

In a statement to CNBC, Huawei said it takes the findings "very seriously" and that "the problems identified in the OB (oversight board) report provide vital input for the ongoing transformation of our software engineering capabilities."

The report comes every bit Huawei is facing increased scrutiny from governments around the world. The U.Due south. government enacted a ban on Huawei on Huawei networking equipment last twelvemonth, naming it every bit a potential national security threat. Huawei has since responded by suing the U.Southward. regime to overturn the ban. Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was also arrested in Canada tardily final year as the U.S. seeks to extradite her under charges of fraud.

Commonwealth of australia has besides enforced a ban on Huawei networking equipment over concerns that the Chinese government could use it to hack the country'due south power grid.

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