Huawei embracing its hacker critics, security chief says

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http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/huawei-embracing-its-hacker-critics-security-chief-says-20121101-28lr2.html

By Jeremy Wagstaff and Lee Chyen Yee
The Sydney Morning Herald
November 1, 2012

Under-fire Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei is reaching out to 
one of its sternest critics: a hacker who accused it of making shoddy 
products.

John Suffolk, the company's global cybersecurity chief, said at a 
cybersecurity conference in New Delhi that he was sending a team of 
engineers to talk to German security researcher Felix Lindner, who has 
exposed vulnerabilities in the company's routers, from its $100 home 
internet devices to multi-million dollar equipment run by 
telecommunications companies.

"We've very much taken on board Felix's views and you'll see over the 
coming period we've got a whole host of significant operations to deal 
with these issues," he said.

The move is a departure of sorts for Huawei, which has been battling 
critics on several fronts. It was last year blocked from bidding for a 
multi-billion dollar National Broadband Network contract in Australia 
over cyber-security fears.

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