Huawei Upgrades Its MacBook Pro Clone With a Hidden Camera That Looks up Your Nose

Huawei has a new product for its MateBook X line. It has really tiny bezels and a hidden camera.
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Senators push bill banning Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE from being used in government

Two senators have introduced a bill that would prohibit the U.S. government from contracting with companies that use equipment or services from Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who are both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said they are proposing the bill because of concerns that the companies enable Chinese espionage. The legislation is a companion to a bill proposed in the House by Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, last month. “Huawei is effectively an arm of the Chinese government, and it’s more than capable of stealing information from U.S. officials by hacking its devices,” Cotton said in a press release. “There are plenty of other companies that can meet our technology needs, and we shouldn’t make it any easier for China to spy on us.” In 2012, the House Intelligence Committee released an investigative report that alleged that Huawei and ZTE have ties to […]

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Senators push bill banning Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE from being used in government

Two senators have introduced a bill that would prohibit the U.S. government from contracting with companies that use equipment or services from Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who are both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said they are proposing the bill because of concerns that the companies enable Chinese espionage. The legislation is a companion to a bill proposed in the House by Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, last month. “Huawei is effectively an arm of the Chinese government, and it’s more than capable of stealing information from U.S. officials by hacking its devices,” Cotton said in a press release. “There are plenty of other companies that can meet our technology needs, and we shouldn’t make it any easier for China to spy on us.” In 2012, the House Intelligence Committee released an investigative report that alleged that Huawei and ZTE have ties to […]

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Hacker exploits router zero-day vulnerability in efforts to build Mirai-like botnet

Hackers are attacking hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers with variants of Mirai malware in a bid to build a massive botnet like arsenal used in global cyberattacks in 2016, according to the Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point. A zero-day vulnerability in the Huawei home router HG532 is being exploited to deliver a payload called Satori (or Okiru) by an amateur identified as “Nexus Zeta,” Check Point says. Mirai malware was first discovered in August 2016. By October of that year, it was behind the vast denial-of-service attacks against the Domain Name System provider Dyn. The offensive brought down a wide array of services, including Twitter, Reddit, CNN, Fox News, Visa and Slack. Earlier this month, three men pleaded guilty to their roles in creating, operating and selling access to the botnet. Beginning in November 2017, Check Point detected global attacks against Huawei HG532 devices. One day later, the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab spotted 100,000 IP addresses in Argentina […]

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IoT Botnet Satori Grows Rapidly Thanks to Zero-Day Flaw

An internet of things (IoT) botnet that recently hijacked more than 100,000 DSL modems in Argentina has extended to other countries and doubled in size over the past week, possibly due to a zero-day vulnerability. The botnet has been dubbed “Sato… Continue reading IoT Botnet Satori Grows Rapidly Thanks to Zero-Day Flaw

Huawei tried to acquire technology from the winners of the Cyber Grand Challenge

After seven supercomputers hacked each other on stage at a prominent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in August 2016, a Chinese corporation approached U.S. researchers responsible for developing the cutting-edge technology in hopes of acquiring it. The previously unreported but concentrated interest by Huawei Technologies, a company once at the center of a federal investigation and which has come under scrutiny by U.S. spy agencies, came in the form of phone calls and emails sent to select individuals involved in engineering machines that competed in the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. ForAllSecure, the company whose team won the challenge, was among those contacted by a representative claiming to be from Huawei. ForAllSecure ignored the advances, according to company CEO David Brumley. The decision was partially driven by a common understanding that Huawei is closely connected to the Chinese government and as such, a relationship with Huawei may negatively impact ForAllSecure’s ability to […]

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