DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
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Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#2The fact that they allowed it in the first place is mind boggling, the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#3The fact that they allowed it in the first place is mind boggling, the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.
Te people that run Kaspersky are Russia, as I understand it.
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#4Is there some sort clandestine effort by Russian intel agencies to force US government to install McAfee Antivirus and subsequently cripple the productivity of said government agencies?
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#5The fact that they allowed it in the first place is mind boggling, the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.
Te people that run Kaspersky are Russia, as I understand it.
They're based in Russia which obviously says a lot without needing to go into more specifics. They still do good work though, they're one of the most respected disclosure-publishers in the world.
I do wonder "why now?" though RE: banning them...Could be either posturing or some sort of recent intelligence (also I mean "recent" in the bureaucratic sense, so like...idk < 1 year?)
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Te people that run Kaspersky are Russia, as I understand it.
They're based in Russia which obviously says a lot without needing to go into more specifics. They still do good work though, they're one of the most respected disclosure-publishers in the world. I do wonder "why now?" though RE: banning them...Could be either posturing or some sort of recent intelligence (also I mean "recent" in the bureaucratic sense, so like...idk < 1 year?)
when a really big horse leaves the barn, you have to close the barn door very firmly after it, i guess.
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#7End of (federal fiscal) year is an OK time for this as there may actually (fingers crossed) be money available to shift away from these products that can be applied toward licenses.
What a happy, happy windfall for all the Symantec / McAfee sales reps with Federal accounts. If you're at a bar with one, they're buying :)
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#8The fact that they allowed it in the first place is mind boggling, the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.
the people that run Kaspersky love Russia.
Love it or leave it, literally. Unless you like a Siberian prison.
FSB walks in, point to a dozen laws you've broken and then ask, how are going to do this. And you've almost certainly broken the laws (it's nearly impossible to operate otherwise in such countries), and even if you didn't a judge will say you did.
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#9None of the following is confirmed, but I keep seeing articles online hinting around this, or implying this. Essentially it sounds like is known in classified circles that Kaspersky works closely with and supports Russian Intelligence (FSB).
It seems while the US knew about this it had a spy within Kaspersky and was their source for finding out what they were up to. The accused spy was arrested by the FSB recently so likely the US no longer is willing to take on the risk of allowing Kaspersky to run on us govt machines. Marco Rubio appeared to hint at some classified info about known govt risks of dealing with Kaspersky. Additionally the second link mentions Kaspersky is moving into protecting critical infrastructure, which seems notable giving the sudden frequency of mentions of the weakness of US infrastructure to network attack.
The problem with classified security stuff is you never find out the full story. Only bits and pieces around the edges of it. It's almost never in their best interest to reveal the depths of what they know because it exposes their methods and awareness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-treason-fsb-spies-kasper...
Earlier article on then working with the FSB.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...
Re: DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government
#10None of the following is confirmed, but I keep seeing articles online hinting around this, or implying this. Essentially it sounds like is known in classified circles that Kaspersky works closely with and supports Russian Intelligence (FSB). It seems while the US knew about this it had a spy within Kaspersky and was their source for finding out what they were up to. The accused spy was arrested by the FSB recently so…
There was also this article a few days ago about an intentional CIA backdoor in Microsoft products that Kaspersky was plugging:
https://theunhivedmind.com/news/2017/09/12/us-explodes-after...