Where is the proof that Cisco has kill switch in it's equipment?

It happened to KLIA backed in Aug 2019

https://soyacincau.com/2019/08/23/klia-disr...ed/?form=MG0AV3 

Hmmmm....i find that hard to believe and im not a wumao

heck i have no love lost for Huawei. I worked for European vendor(s) that had to look over our shoulder constantly as Huawei swapped most of us in the late 2000s into the 2010s. They literally threatening my ricebowl kek

But huawei wont be more expensive than Europeans much less E/// unless E/// was very desperate and Huawei didnt have a chance to counter bid

Or was it an apple to apple comparison. The final shortlist iirc was E///, Nokia, and other transmission/transport and core networking players like Cisco, FibreHome and NEC etc. E/// and Nokia over the years have streamlined their portfolio only to offer mobile networks, they have divested their other technology areas and have to rely on the above vendors for an end to end solution.

Huawei does not need to leverage on the above except possibly Cisco for some key areas in their core (they might actually not also seeing how they grow). They have solutions end to end and can use most if not all inhouse Huawei equipment. If huawei was benchmarked against E/// and Nokia based solely on price and not the mobile portion its not a fair comparison. They are supplying more than the other 2

Again i have to reitirate , i'm not a wumao or a huawei apologist kek. Just that Huawei from experience dont come more expensive most days. Even at their (European vendors that is) most desperate, Huawei can dangle the free swaps to new  2G and 3G  equipment to local operators to trump European vendors. They can easily redeploy them at less developed countries in separate commercial deals. Europeans never were as versatile as them in negotiations

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Your soyacincau news link does not say Cisco used a kill switch to disrupt the KLIA operations.
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Chinese telecom companies are starting to remove American devices from their networks and turn them off completely, in a move to protect national security and confront potential risks.



Back in 2022 when Russia terms with USA soured due to escalating Ukrainian war, Cisco turned on the kill switch and disabled all its telco equipments in Russia before making the exit.

Cisco's Russian subsidiary physically destroyed unsold equipment worth 1.9 billion rubles ($23.5 million).

So the question here is China the only threat with backdoors and kill switches in their telecom equipments?

Western companies are saints?

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Your soyacincau news link does not say Cisco used a kill switch to disrupt the KLIA operations.
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it happened right after KLIA decided to change all Cisco to Huawei. And then suddenly kaboom 

The management had no choice but to get Cisco to replace all those switches in a short timeframe.

Microsoft's global outage created havoc. From airline to broadcasting, the blue screen error, in a way, brought the daily operations to a standstill on Friday. Now, it has been reported that China remained largely unaffected by the outage.

As per a report by South China Post, the country's airline and banking sectors weren't hit due to the tech glitch. 

Citing the reason, the report added China doesn't rely on outside infrastructure to support its daily operations.

As per news agency AFP, the operations at airports in Beijing were not affected due to the glitch, stated Chinese state media.

Meanwhile, a woman, who works for a foreign company in Shanghai, said that people at her office complained about the blue screen error, the report added. She also highlight the error message on her screen read, “Recovery. It looks like Windows didn't load correctly.”

Social media reacts

People, in China, also stated that they were facing issues exploring some of the international hotels, the report mentioned.

Xiaohongshu, an Instagram-like Chinese social media platform, was filled with messages from uses complaining about the glitch.

Microsoft Outage: what happened?

A software update rolled out by  CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity firm, led to the disruption of workflow across the globe. The update was meant to make CrowdStrike clients' systems more secure against hacking by updating the threats it defends against.

But due to a glitch in the update, the IT systems faced Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error which caused the system to suddenly shut down or restart.

-While businesses in the U.S. and Europe woke up Friday to a global IT outage that disrupted airports and hotels, China went into its weekend largely unaffected.

-“The impact of Friday’s CrowdStrike incident on China was very small, with almost no impact on domestic public life,” Gao Feng, senior research director at Gartner, said in Chinese, translated by CNBC. “Only some foreign companies in China were affected.”
   
-“This is partly because many of the security threats that CrowdStrike is designed to protect against originate from China,” said Rich Bishop, CEO of AppInChina, which publishes international software in China.

Not just KLIA..

Remember the Microsoft Outages That Struck Most Airports Worldwide?

Global Microsoft Outage Didn't Affect Most Of China
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/asia/glo...ticle-111870993

This Country Was Left Untouched By Biggest-Ever IT Outage
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/microsoft-o...ffected-6154041
Here’s why China was largely unaffected by Friday’s IT outage
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/22/heres-why-c...-it-outage.html

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Fyi, .......

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g01y047pdo - How China swerved worst of global tech meltdown
20 July 2024
While most of the world was grappling with the blue screen of death on Friday, one country that managed to escape largely unscathed was China.

The reason is actually quite simple: CrowdStrike is hardly used there.

Very few organisations will buy software from an American firm that, in the past, has been vocal about the cyber-security threat posed by Beijing.

Additionally, China is not as reliant on Microsoft as the rest of the world. Domestic companies such as Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei are the dominant cloud providers.

So reports of outages in China, when they did come, were mainly at foreign firms or organisations. On Chinese social media sites, for example, some users complained they were not able to check into international chain hotels such as Sheraton, Marriott and Hyatt in Chinese cities. ...
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it happened right after KLIA decided to change all Cisco to Huawei. And then suddenly kaboom 

The management had no choice but to get Cisco to replace all those switches in a short timeframe.

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Fyi, .......

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/klia-network...ttle-text-block
KLIA Network Glitch - Final Case Study

Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPMTs. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPM
Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPM
CISO | Chief Research Officer | Keynote Speaker | Board Member
Published Feb 15, 2023

In 2019, I wrote about the KLIA network glitch that affected the operations of the airport. The failure caused catastrophic failure which halted the airport operations. At that time, no details were available to confirm what actually happened.

I used my own experiences to related to the case and hypothesize what happened. Now, official details have emerged and this case study is now final, complete and factual. Read on to find out what actually happened.

The incident

The incident happened at 2019, but the issue was due to a request that happened in 2017. There is a hotel in the vicinity of the airport called Sama-Sama hotel. In October 2017, personnels of Sama-Sama hotel requested to connect the IPTV network (SSEKLIA2) to their ICT office. Note that the airport network infrastructure falls under the care of MAHB, naturally this request will go to MAHB. The request also carried a potential “Layer 2 multicast/routing issue”.

Come 11 July 2019, Sama-sama hotel personnel made another request to extend the VLAN 235 to SSHKILA, SSEKLIA1, SSEKLIA2. On 21 August 2019 8:15pm IT Division reported intermittent connection with TAMS (Total Airport Management System), at the Core Switch. An IT crisis was declared on 22 August 2019 at 3:00am, since the TAMS network was recovered (7 hours after the issue has been identified). TAMS network failure caused a cascading failure, affecting the Flight Information Management System, Flight Information Display System, Baggage Handling System, Gate Allocation System, Flight Data Processing System and the Immigration System.

A specialist team from Cisco came in to resolve the issue, enabling IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) to reduce the multicast. The migration to a new switch was also done. As part of the recovery process, MAHB ordered a N5K and N7k core switches. 

Incident Assessment  ....
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-k...ttle-text-block - Case study - KLIA airport glitch

Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy - Published Sep 3, 2019
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Timeline

20 August 2019 - MAHB signed a MOU with Huawei on technology modernization.

21 August 2019 - KLIA/KLIA 2 reported system/technical issues affecting multiple systems in the airport. Initial news indicates a failure at the network equipment.

22 August 2019 - The Star reported that MAHB had informed that the situation will be resolved by 23 August 2019, as it has received new equipment to replace the existing ones and testing to be conducted on the same night.

23 August 2019 - MAHB updated their website (as at 6am) explaining that they are in the midst of stabilizing their system and had deployed additional buses to ferry the passengers to their respective terminals. ...
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Fyi, .......

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/klia-network...ttle-text-block
KLIA Network Glitch - Final Case Study

Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPMTs. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPM
Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy CISSP,CISM,GCTI,GNFA,GCDA,CIPM
CISO | Chief Research Officer | Keynote Speaker | Board Member
Published Feb 15, 2023

In 2019, I wrote about the KLIA network glitch that affected the operations of the airport. The failure caused catastrophic failure which halted the airport operations. At that time, no details were available to confirm what actually happened.

I used my own experiences to related to the case and hypothesize what happened. Now, official details have emerged and this case study is now final, complete and factual. Read on to find out what actually happened.

The incident

The incident happened at 2019, but the issue was due to a request that happened in 2017. There is a hotel in the vicinity of the airport called Sama-Sama hotel. In October 2017, personnels of Sama-Sama hotel requested to connect the IPTV network (SSEKLIA2) to their ICT office. Note that the airport network infrastructure falls under the care of MAHB, naturally this request will go to MAHB. The request also carried a potential “Layer 2 multicast/routing issue”.

Come 11 July 2019, Sama-sama hotel personnel made another request to extend the VLAN 235 to SSHKILA, SSEKLIA1, SSEKLIA2. On 21 August 2019 8:15pm IT Division reported intermittent connection with TAMS (Total Airport Management System), at the Core Switch. An IT crisis was declared on 22 August 2019 at 3:00am, since the TAMS network was recovered (7 hours after the issue has been identified). TAMS network failure caused a cascading failure, affecting the Flight Information Management System, Flight Information Display System, Baggage Handling System, Gate Allocation System, Flight Data Processing System and the Immigration System.

A specialist team from Cisco came in to resolve the issue, enabling IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) to reduce the multicast. The migration to a new switch was also done. As part of the recovery process, MAHB ordered a N5K and N7k core switches. 

Incident Assessment  ....
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-k...ttle-text-block - Case study - KLIA airport glitch

Ts. Dr. Suresh Ramasamy - Published Sep 3, 2019
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Timeline

20 August 2019 - MAHB signed a MOU with Huawei on technology modernization.

21 August 2019 - KLIA/KLIA 2 reported system/technical issues affecting multiple systems in the airport. Initial news indicates a failure at the network equipment.

22 August 2019 - The Star reported that MAHB had informed that the situation will be resolved by 23 August 2019, as it has received new equipment to replace the existing ones and testing to be conducted on the same night.

23 August 2019 - MAHB updated their website (as at 6am) explaining that they are in the midst of stabilizing their system and had deployed additional buses to ferry the passengers to their respective terminals. ...
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Your report doesn't prove Cisco innocent. What a coincidence, when they decided to switch the vendor, suddenly everything failed   

Malaysia Airports lodges police report over KLIA systems disruption

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/489747

Your report doesn't prove Cisco innocent. What a coincidence, when they decided to switch the vendor, suddenly everything failed   

Malaysia Airports lodges police report over KLIA systems disruption

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/489747

.... As part of the recovery process, MAHB ordered a N5K and N7k core switches.  ....

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To recover from the KLIA disruption in Aug 2019, MAHB ordered a N5K and N7K core switches from Cisco. Why would MAHB do that if Cisco was guilty.?
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To recover from the KLIA disruption in Aug 2019, MAHB ordered a N5K and N7K core switches from Cisco. Why would MAHB do that if Cisco was guilty.?
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Because Cisco has the backup. which can restore in a short period of time.

Huawei has to replace everything, which will take months.

That is why Cisco used the kill switch.

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Fyi, MAHB was still buying Cisco network switches in 2022, .......

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So, why was MAHB still buying Cisco network switches in 2022 with a maintenance contract of 12 months.? ......
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Your report doesn't prove Cisco innocent. What a coincidence, when they decided to switch the vendor, suddenly everything failed  brows.gif  brows.gif

Malaysia Airports lodges police report over KLIA systems disruption

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/489747

After 3 years, who knows what had happened.

Timeline

20 August 2019 - MAHB signed a MOU with Huawei on technology modernization.