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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.
[Editor's Comment: Typo fixed at 15:39 UTC]
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday March 22 2015, @10:10PM
Telling lies for power is pretty much all our MSM is anymore. If you wanna know which ones are giving the most handjobs to the NSA? Just look up their coverage when all that nasty PMC dirty dealings was dumped on wikileaks and see how many instantly ignored that for "But Assange may not have used a condom, the filthy rapist!". you'll see that the Post and the Times were the worst, they even buried anything to do with that video of the chopper pilot killing that family while laughing and acting like he was playing Call of Dooky but practically screamed from the rooftops every tweet from the 24 hours Assange was with that girl and every "detail" of the later shown to be false charges against the head of the IMF...who wanted to get rid of the petrodollar...wow, what a coincidence, huh?
its sad to say but at this moment I'd trust Pravda more than I trust our own media, at least they don't pretend to be objective..
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2015, @12:32PM
What do those acronyms that you used mean? MSM? PMC?