DOD, The Banning

DOD Bans On-Base Sale Huawei, ZTE Mobile Devices

via Graham Cluley, writing at GrahamCluley.com, comes this interesting story, originaly via Stu Woo and Gordon Lubold, both at The Wall Street Journal, in which, Messrs. Woo and Lubold detail the banning of Huawei and ZTE mobile products from Exchanges On-Base , world wide.

“Huawei and ZTE devices may pose an unacceptable risk to the department’s personnel, information and mission,“ said Army Maj. Dave Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, in a statement. “In light of this information, it was not prudent for the department’s exchanges to continue selling them.” – Dave Eastburn, MAJ US Army, a US Department of Defense spokesman – via Stu Woo and Gordon Lubold, both at The Wall Street Journal

Permalink

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Infosecurity.US authored by Marc Handelman. Read the original post at: https://www.grahamcluley.com/the-pentagon-bans-huawei-and-zte-smartphones-from-military-bases-worldwide/

Recent Posts

NewDay Scores with TigerGraph Cloud to Fight Financial Fraud

Leading UK Credit Card Consumer Finance Company Uses Advanced Graph Analytics to Intercept Fraudulent Credit Card Applications, Boost Anti-Fraud Efforts…

27 mins ago

VMRay Closes $25 Million Series B

Digital+ Partners Leads Continuation Funding Round in Growing Automated Threat Analysis & Detection Provider, Closing its Series B Round at…

3 hours ago

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking OpenWRT

For three years OpenWRT had a severe validation problem with its download package manager, until a fuzz tester found and…

3 hours ago

Goodbye to Flash – if you’re still running it, uninstall Flash Player now

It’s time to say a final “Goodbye” to Flash. (Or should that be “Good riddance”?) With earlier this week seeing…

3 hours ago

Being a Defender

1. Be a student of (information security, network security, cyber security). Always strive to know what the latest tactics, trends,…

4 hours ago

Smart DNS: Delivering the Best Subscriber Experience

This is the second in a series of blog posts that discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing network…

4 hours ago