Senate Gets Ready to Ban Kaspersky Products as FBI Interviews Company's US Employees

[LASER_oneXM]

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Many industry experts believe that this is a simple political game that's wasting everyone's time.

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US weariness towards Kaspersky Lab, the company, are based on the fact that Eugene Kaspersky, its founder and CEO, was trained by the KGB and worked as a Soviet intelligence officer in the Red Army, a period which he many times declined to talk about.

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This is not the first time Kaspersky Lab has bene accused of secret ties to the Russian government. Eugene Kaspersky has been answering these accusations for the past two decades, and has more recently in a New York Times article.

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A draft of the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018" — which approves the budget and policies for US defensive projects — outlines a ban on the usage of Kaspersky Lab software products at DOD facilities under the explanation that the Russian antivirus vendor "might be vulnerable to Russian government influence."

"[The Committee] prohibits the DOD from using software platforms developed by Kaspersky Lab due to reports that the Moscow-based company might be vulnerable to Russian government influence," the proposed bill reads [page 12], first spotted by Reuters last night.

This bill draft comes on the heels of news that FBI agents have interviewed a dozen of Kaspersky employees working at the company's US offices. According to NBC News, on Tuesday, after work hours, FBI agents visited employees' homes and grilled them on the company’s operations.

 

[conceptualclarity]

Might not be a bad idea to ban Kaspersky at the Pentagon as an extreme caution. They can make do with Bitdefender or Norton. Absolutely no chance Kaspersky will be banned for US consumers. I look forward to using it on my next system.

 

[omidomi]

It need Russian government also ban Symantec
Idk why both us and russian govenments want to start cold war, both of them know Your Enemy are not you, your enemy is fundamentalist ...
from top to bottom this deals will end the peace at the world and will start WW3
those "chicken" who want start war know , you will not be safe for sure....

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Isn't it a sweet coincidence that Bill G and Kaspersky have their issue, and now were reading this ?
If you think Bill G doesn't have that kind of pull here in the US, I assure you he does.
May not be related, but it does make one think

 

[mekelek]

seeing how big of a problem the US makes Kaspersky to be, makes me want to continue using it.
after all, which country's agencies screwed over more civilians with their cyber divisions? you guessed it right.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

US weariness towards Kaspersky Lab, the company, are based on the fact that Eugene Kaspersky, its founder and CEO, was trained by the KGB and worked as a Soviet intelligence officer in the Red Army, a period which he many times declined to talk about.

Their always going to hold that over his head. For as long as his company remains or however long he lives.

 

[Uncle Bob]

OK Now I'm suspicious that my government believes that Kaspersky might be able to keep the NSA out of my machine. lol