Dem senator pushes for govt-wide ban of Russian cyber firm

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MORGAN CHALFANT - 09/05/17 10:34 AM EDT

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) is pushing for a government-wide ban of security software produced by a Russian-origin cyber firm, on the grounds that the company’s “extensive ties to Russian intelligence” threaten the United States.

Shaheen has already successfully introduced an amendment to the Senate’s version of annual defense policy legislation that would bar the Defense Department from using Kaspersky Lab software. But the Democratic senator wants the final bill to go even further, instituting a ban on all federal agencies from using software produced by the company.

“I am advancing bipartisan legislation to prohibit the federal government from using Kaspersky Lab software,” Shaheen wrote in an op-ed published in the New York Times. “When broad defense legislation comes before the Senate in the weeks ahead, I hope to amend it to ban Kaspersky software from all of the federal government.”

Kaspersky’s alleged ties to Russian intelligence have been a point of focus in the media in recent years. Eugene Kaspersky, the company’s founder, was educated at a computer science institute backed by the KGB, Russia’s former spy agency. The company has repeatedly rejected claims that it has ties to Russian intelligence.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/349191-dem-senator-pushes-for-govt-wide-ban-of-russian-cyber-firm

[flibbitygiblets]

1. About friggin' time! With the Russian investigation in high gear, should be hard to NOT pass this

How many trojan horses have already been planted by this software?

[L. Coyote]

3. Do you realize that their software detects and prevents trojans? It secures computers.

Instead of going after a great computer company, we should go after the Russian mobsters.

[flibbitygiblets]

4. Yes, I know that's what it does. Did YOU know that it might also help spies hack your computer?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/07/27/kaspersky-av-hack-with-satellite-malware/#6e9706162e0f

Kaspersky is tied to the Kremlin. Do you really want to use this software? Should the US government continue to use it?

[L. Coyote]

5. Bill Gates already has that covered with backdoors, so your virus ware can't prevent that.

If you want to prevent spying, you need to go after the OS vulnerabilities.

[Me.]

2. Why Is This Even An Issue

[vkkv]

6. Exactly... to even consider a foreign company seems insane..

STUPID FUCKING REPUBLICANS !!