Computer viruses, malware, and other cybersecurity threats are a global problem. But politics are intruding on the global response.
The cybersecurity organization Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (First) confirmed Wednesday that it suspended Huawei's membership due to US sanctions against the company. The decision was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.
First aims to coordinate responses by both governments and companies to information security threats. Its members include government agencies, as well as telecommunications carriers, financial services companies, hardware and software makers, security firms, and academic organizations.
Earlier this year the Trump administration added Huawei to a list of companies banned from acquiring US-made technology without permission. That led US chipmakers to say they would stop selling semiconductors to the Chinese company, and Google to withdraw the company's licenses to use key apps such as Gmail and the Play Store app marketplace—at least for new products.
The US has long worried that Huawei could help the Chinese government spy by either building backdoors into its systems or handing over information about security bugs in its products before they're fixed. But the US has never presented evidence of Huawei spying on behalf of the Chinese government. Huawei insists that it does not and would not spy for the Chinese government and would not be legally obligated to do so. But could price latest huawei
