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
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)
Let’s just talk about Puerto Rico. Is Russia treating Crimea the same as the U.S. is dealing with Puerto Rico?
When was the last time we invaded and occupied Puerto Rico?
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:53PM
The Spanish had already granted autonomy to Puerto Rico when the U.S. decided it was valuable as a naval station and to get rid of the Spanish presence. No one asked if the puertoricans wanted to be 'liberated' from Spain to become second class citizens of the U.S.