U.S. Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech Over Security Concerns
A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components because of national security concerns, Reuters reports.
A letter from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, dated November 5, 2012, state that the facility had installed devices made by H3C Technologies Co., based in Hangzhou, China, Reuters reports. H3C began a joint venture between China’s Huawei Technologies Co and 3Com Corp, a U.S. tech firm, and was once called Huawei-3Com. Hewlett Packard Co. acquired that firm in 2010, the article says.