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Recently, we have reported several claims (here, here, and here) made by the Russian security software manufacturer Kaspersky Lab that they have discovered 'evidence' of NSA involvement in malware. Now, Bloomberg claims that the Moscow-based computer security company has effectively been taken over by the FSB. Company founder Eugene Kaspersky was educated at a KBG-run school, which was never a secret, but the new report describes a much more current and intimate connection.
Kaspersky Lab is denying the allegations, as one might expect, and counter with the statement:
It's not as though the US has clean hands in all of this. The CIA has funded the development of security software firms like FireEye, Veracode, and Hytrust though its In-Q-Tel investment fund, and American firms have been noticeably silent when it comes to investigating suspected US state-sponsored malware.
We are unlikely to hear the truth from either side, nor should we realistically expect a confession from the NSA or the FSB. Nevertheless, it is possible that the security industries on both sides are 'guilty' of looking after their respective government's interests and what we are seeing is just another day in the world of intelligence collection and cyber-security, the world of claim and counter-claim.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2015, @06:35PM
I think it more likely that they are drawing attention to themselves, which draws the attention of journalists. One doesn't need to always invoke juvenile "teh lame stream media is p0wnd!" analysis. Aren't we always so quick to announce "Streisand Effect", so why doesn't it apply here?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday March 22 2015, @07:26PM
How about *both*. We don't live in a world where everything is either/or.
For that matter, even if Kaspersky Labs has ties to the FSB (probable) that doesn't make everything they say wrong, it just means that they aren't likely to say bad things about Russia, or good things about the US. Selective reporting is not (quite) the same as lying.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.