{"id":87316,"date":"2019-02-01T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/israeli-cyberexpert-detects-china-hack-in-ottawa-warns-against-using-huawei-5g"},"modified":"2019-02-01T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:22:22","slug":"israeli-cyberexpert-detects-china-hack-in-ottawa-warns-against-using-huawei-5g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/israeli-cyberexpert-detects-china-hack-in-ottawa-warns-against-using-huawei-5g","title":{"rendered":"Israeli cyberexpert detects China hack in Ottawa, warns against using Huawei 5G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-cyberexpert-detects-china-hack-in-ottawa-warns-against-using-huawei-5g.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 A Chinese telecommunication company secretly diverted Canadian internet traffic to China, particularly from Rogers subscribers in the Ottawa area, says an Israeli cybersecurity specialist.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 incident involved the surreptitious rerouting of the internet data of Rogers customers in and around Canada\u2019s capital by China Telecom, a state-owned internet service provider that has two legally operating \u201cpoints of presence\u201d on Canadian soil, said Yuval Shavitt, an electrical-engineering expert at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n<p>Shavitt told The Canadian Press that the China Telecom example should serve as a caution to the Canadian government not to do business with another Chinese telecommunications giant: Huawei Technologies, which is vying to build Canada\u2019s next-generation 5G wireless communications networks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenectarine.ca\/politics\/israeli-cyberexpert-detects-china-hack-in-ottawa-warns-against-using-huawei-5g\/\">https:\/\/thenectarine.ca\/politics\/israeli-cyberexpert-detects...huawei-5g\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 A Chinese telecommunication company secretly diverted Canadian internet traffic to China, particularly from Rogers subscribers in the Ottawa area, says an Israeli cybersecurity specialist. The 2016 incident involved the surreptitious rerouting of the internet data of Rogers customers in and around Canada\u2019s capital by China Telecom, a state-owned internet service provider that has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,38,1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-engineering","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}