Security Expert: Huawei Routers Riddled With Vulnerabilities

Posted by Unknown on Thursday August 2, 2012 @12:47AM from the more-like-riddled-with-features dept.

sabri writes "Cnet reports that German security expert Felix Lindner has unearthed several vulnerabilities in Huawei's carrier grade routers. These vulnerabilities could potentially enable attackers, or the Chinese government, to snoop on users' traffic and/or perform a man-in-the-middle attack. While these routers are mostly in use in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, they are increasingly being used in other parts of the world as well, because of their dirt-cheap pricing. Disclaimer: I work for one of their competitors." Via the H, you can check out the presentation slides. Yesterday Huawei issued a statement 'We are aware of the media reports on security vulnerabilities in some small Huawei routers and are verifying these claims...'

3 of 126 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:summary is racist by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-02 01:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Nice try, Chinese government.
Re:Well... by AngryDeuce · 2012-08-02 01:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, exactly the same, except for all the deliberately inserted vulnerabilities. What a bargain!
Re:summary is racist by fa2k · 2012-08-02 01:45 · Score: 1, Funny

Well it's nothing compared to the slides. When research is presented in such a xenophobic, childish way, it makes it hard to take it seriously (and this cyber* stuff is potentially very serious) Slashdot, being a news organisation and not a hackers shold be held to a higher standard, though.