The chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of Huawei has been arrested in Canada – and could face extradition to the US on charges of violating trade sanctions against Iran.

The Canadian Department of Justice said Meng Wanzhou, who also goes by the name Sabrina Meng, was collared by police in Vancouver over the weekend at the request of Uncle Sam, which hopes to haul her into a court in the States. She will face a hearing later this week, we're told.

Sabrina Meng, in happier times

"Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on December 1. She is sought for

BT and Huawei said today that reports the Chinese kit-maker's products would not be used on EE's 3G and 4G core mobile ops – and that it was out of the running for any bids for the 5G core – should surprise no one.

BT to splash £550m integrating EE. Firm shrugs: Cheap!

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The UK's incumbent telco chalked up any inclusion of Huawei kit at the core to its purchase of EE two years ago, telling The Reg : "In 2016, following the acquisition of EE, we began a process to remove Huawei equipment from the core of our

Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word demanded an independent review of DNS overlord ICANN's handling of the saga.

More than two years ago, the internet infrastructure industry was agape when an unknown company paid $135m for the rights to sell .web internet addresses: the sum paid was three times the previous record paid for a new dot-word, and seven times the average auction price for a top-level domain.

All that money went directly into the coffers of ICANN, a

Networks roundup What if all you had to do to block SYN-based denial-of-service attacks was drop the first incoming SYN packet?

That intriguing idea was put forward this week, in this Internet-Draft .

SYN floods are a basic “cheap and cheerful” DDoS – an attacker with a botnet handy gets the machines to send TCP SYN messages (these are the first requests in the handshake that establishes a new TCP connection) to the victim. The target host sends an ACK and waits for the client ACK – which the attacker never sends (a "half-open" connection). Eventually, the incoming SYN flood

Comment It's a bit of a cliche that "everything's connected", but O2's stunning outage yesterday – chalked up by Swedish kitmaker Ericsson to an expired software certificate – is a reminder of how true that is.

Payment terminals croaked, bus displays went blank. Strangers blinked at each other in the street, like Robinson Crusoe waking up at Westfields. Fearful drivers cancelled their journeys, and took the train instead. We only realise how pervasive machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile data connections are in our lives until they stop working, and it’s only going to become much more pervasive.

It would be prudent of the