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Seagate Fingers Hard-Drive Poisoning Employee, Hardens Prevention Measures...
Earlier this week, we shared breaking news about Seagate selling 1,800 Trojan-horse-infected Maxtor hard drives at retail. I checked in with the company to learn the details, and see if they busted the...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Did Jackie Chan Just Make Me Watch?
Dear god. Jackie Chan. On a Segway. Punching computer viruses. While wearing a helmet that says Kaspersky. I can only process this logically as him trying to gin up business for his Segway dealership....
View ArticleRussian Antivirus Tycoon's Son Kidnapped
Yevgeny Kaspersky, head of mega-antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs, probably has a lot of enemies in Russia—a country where cybercrime rakes in the rubles. So it's not entirely surprisingly that Yevgeny's...
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Spyware Implanted in PDFs Has Been Sneaking Into Government Computers Worldwide
A new spyware epidemic has broken out at government entities and NGOs in 23 countries including several organizations in the United States. And it's not bogus Twitter links or porn that's getting...
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Patent for Hardware Antivirus Device Granted To Russian Inventor
Kaspersky Labs, a cybersecurity group based in Russia, was recently awarded the patent for a hardware antivirus device that aims to keep your computer secure by attaching directly to the disk drive,...
View ArticleFirst Widespread Android Trojan Loose in the Wild (UPDATED)
Honeymoon's over, everyone: antiviral watchdog Kaspersky has spotted Android's first, SMS-based trojan making the rounds in Russia. The devious little MS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a masks itself as a media...
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Watch That Wi-Fi: Hackers Use Hotel Internet to Steal Nuclear Secrets
Security researchers recently identified an elite team of possibly state-sponsored hackers that infiltrate hotel Wi-Fi networks to gain access to the computers of high-level executives and leaders,...
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Foxconn Played an Unwitting Role in the Hack on the Iran Nuclear Talks
The story of Israel using a sophisticated cyberweapon to spy on the United States and others attending nuclear talks is getting weirder. According to Kaspersky, the attackers not only used a...
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Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Hacking Investigator for Treason
Under mysterious circumstances, Russia has arrested Ruslan Stoyanov, head of computer incidents investigations unit at the huge cybersecurity firm at Kaspersky. He’s been charged with treason.Read more...
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Russia's Mysterious Cyber Treason Case Just Got Even Sketchier
Late last year, top cybersecurity investigators from a private firm and Russian intelligence were arrested in dramatic fashion. One was dragged out of a meeting with a bag over his head. All were...
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In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government
Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been a disturbing trend of governments demanding that private tech companies share their source code if they want to do business. Now, the US government is giving...
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Citing Russian Ties, Homeland Security Boots Kaspersky Software From...
American government agencies are now banned from using software created by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab and will have to begin removing Kaspersky products from their systems within...
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Kaspersky Under Scrutiny in New Revelations About NSA Security Breach
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, highly classified material from the NSA was stolen by hackers working for the Russian government in 2015. It’s being called “one of the most...
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UK Warns Government Agencies to Avoid Kaspersky Products, Citing Russian Ties
Russian security software company Kaspersky Lab has been having a bad few months amid allegations its signature anti-virus software scans for and identifies files of interest to Russian cyber spies....
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Kaspersky Closes DC Office, Says It Is 'No Longer Viable' to Work With...
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has had a rough season stateside amid claims the company’s software scans for and steals documents of interest to the Kremlin. With the use of its products at U.S....
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Trump Signs Ban on Kaspersky Software
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed legislation officially banning the federal government’s use of software made by Kaspersky Labs, Reuters reports.Read more...
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Kaspersky Lab Suing Trump Administration Following Software Ban
In September, the US government mysteriously announced that it was banning Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs’ anti-virus software from use on its employees’ machines. A war of words, official and unofficial,...
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The Strange Case of Kaspersky Lab Just Got Messier
Products by the security software company Kaspersky Lab were banned from use by the United States government last year over security concerns, and its reputation has been badly damaged. In a surprising...
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Kaspersky Lab Saga Grows Weirder as Critics of the Security Firm Say Bumbling...
A man who goes by the name Lucas Lambert reportedly spent months setting up meetings with three cybersecurity experts under false pretenses last year, hoping to get them to say that they were paid to...
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FCC Plans to Ban World's Largest Mobile Phone Operator From U.S. Citing...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it will move to block China Mobile, the largest telecom company in mainland China, from offering services in the United States. The effort...
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