Dem senator pushes for govt-wide ban of Russian cyber firm
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 companys extensive ties to Russian intelligence threaten the United States.
Shaheen has already successfully introduced an amendment to the Senates 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.
Kasperskys alleged ties to Russian intelligence have been a point of focus in the media in recent years. Eugene Kaspersky, the companys founder, was educated at a computer science institute backed by the KGB, Russias 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
(7,220 posts)How many trojan horses have already been planted by this software?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Instead of going after a great computer company, we should go after the Russian mobsters.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Kaspersky is tied to the Kremlin. Do you really want to use this software? Should the US government continue to use it?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)If you want to prevent spying, you need to go after the OS vulnerabilities.
Me.
(35,454 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)STUPID FUCKING REPUBLICANS !!