http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/huawei_denies_spying/ By Neil McAllister in San Francisco The Register 5th September 2012 Even as execs of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei prepare to testify before Congress over concerns that the company's networking equipment may pose a security threat to US infrastructure, the company issued a public statement claiming that it has never participated in cyber espionage or any other illegal act, and that it would never do so. That claim comes in a new report written by John Suffolk – a former UK government CIO who now serves as Huawei's global cyber security officer – with the rather tongue-tying title of "Cyber Security Perspectives: 21st century technology and security – a difficult marriage." Huawei, like its Chinese competitor ZTE, has been under investigation by the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for nearly a year, after multiple US government and military officials raised concerns about both companies' ties to the Chinese government. In the report, which Suffolk describes as "an open and frank perspective" on Huawei's views regarding cyber security and its impacts, the company asserts that the negative attention it has received is unfair and that espionage would be against its business interests: [...] -- #HITB2012KUL - The 10TH ANNUAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia with no keynotes, no labs - just three tracks filled with our most popular speakers from the last decade: http://conference.hitb.org/Received on Thu Sep 06 2012 - 01:46:31 PDT
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