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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2009-03-30 8:20:58
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5072204/Britain-could-be-shut-down-by-hackers-from-China-intelligence-experts-warn.html
By Alastair Jamieson
Telegraph.co.uk
29 March 2009
Ministers have been warned that a new £10bn communications network being
developed by BT is vulnerable to a potential attack from within the
Communist state because it uses equipment supplied by Chinese telecoms
firm Huawei.
Although the risk of anyone in China exploiting the capability is
currently low, intelligence experts believe the impact of any such
attack would be very high. Computers at the Foreign Office and other
Whitehall departments were attacked from China in 2007 and the threat
from foreign governments and big companies is believed to be greater
than that posed by terrorists.
Alex Allan, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), it
thought to have briefed members of the ministerial committee on national
security about the threat from China at a Whitehall meeting in January.
Ministers were told steps to curb the potential threat have made little
difference.
Huawei is China's biggest phone company and a major world supplier.
Under a multi-million pound deal signed in 2005, it is providing key
components for BT's new '21CN' network which will use internet
technology to speed up communications on behalf of thousands of public
agencies and businesses.
Among those who will be relying on the new network are the government's
own intelligence agency GCHQ, Whitehall departments and the military.
[...]
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