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posted by takyon on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the proactive-data-recovery dept.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell when it reported that Russian government hackers located confidential National Security Agency material improperly stored on an employee's home computer with help from Kaspersky antivirus, which happened to be installed. On Tuesday, The New York Times and The Washington Post provided another shocker: the Russian hackers were caught in the act by spies from Israel, who were burrowed deep inside Kaspersky's corporate network around the time of the theft.

Ars Technica: How Kaspersky AV reportedly was caught helping Russian hackers steal NSA secrets

The New York Times: How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

The Washington Post: Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached (archive)

Previously: Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:32AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:32AM (#582170)

    If Equifax doesn't do it, there is no hope.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:07AM (1 child)

    by pTamok (3042) on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:07AM (#582220)

    If Equifax doesn't do it, there is no hope.

    If there is hope, it lies in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population, could the force to destroy the status quo ever be generated.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:09PM (#582315)

      Until they stop staring at the likes of the kardashians, and responding to advertising telling them what to think and what to look like...

      I would suspect we've already lost. And that most of us are proles anyway -- in our own way. no one here is at the top.

      you'd have thought previous major disclosures would have caused a greater response... but it looks like that since there is no dislike button, everyone seemed to like it if they registered an opinion at all.

      the fact that so many are on opiods and legally made dependent upon them seems to be just another means to keep the masses in check. oh and then take aware their health care after they are addicted? they'll be too weak to rebel!

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday October 16 2017, @09:40AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday October 16 2017, @09:40AM (#582937)

    Not quite the same thing.

    Even if I persuaded everyone I know to move away from Windows, how would that protect them from the incompetence of Equifax?