CASE STUDY- VODAFONE GLOBAL COMPANY (DISCUSSION)

After months of investigation, Vodafone has discovered security bugs in its networks which installed by Huawei company. All evidence has pointed to Huawei company as responsible on these bugs. (Bloomberg, 2019) In 2009, Huawei built back doors on the home router in the Vodafone network, which allowed them to access to sensitive data and take full control to Vodafone networks. (Bloomberg, 2019) In 2011, Vodafone requested Huawei to fix these back doors, and it received a confirmation from the provider that all issues were fixed, but further investigations have found the threats still existed. In 2012, again Vodafone identified other back doors in some of its fixed access network which called optical service nodes. After that, Vodafone and Huawei have announced that all issues were solved. (Bloomberg, 2019)
Sources:
Bloomberg, 2019. Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors In Huawei Equipment. [online] Bloomberg. Available at: <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment> [Accessed 28 November 2020].

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