"This isn't new, there has been discussion of this over the past several months," said Mark Testoni, CEO of NS2, a company that partners with national security organizations to track the digital trail of hackers and terrorists. intelligence chiefs whether they would use the software on their computer. For months, suspicion has mounted that the company may be too closely tied to Russian intelligence agencies accused of being behind a series of cyber attacks in the U.S.Īt a meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee in May, Senator Marc Rubio asked six U.S. The company's founder and current chief is Eugene Kaspersky, who as a youth studied at a KGB cryptography institute and served in the Soviet military. military personnel from owning or using Kaspersky software. A bill recently approved by the Senate and House Armed Services Committees would bar U.S. Kaspersky was delisted as Trump administration officials mull a broader ban on the software, which would block all government agencies from purchasing it, officials told ABC. General Services Administration spokeswoman told Newsweek, adding the agency's priorities "are to ensure the integrity and security of U.S. The action was taken "after review and careful consideration," a U.S. government agencies to purchase technology equipment. On Wednesday, the General Services Administration (GRA) removed the Moscow-based company, which has 400 million users worldwide, from a list of approved vendors used by U.S. It is used by millions of American families, businesses and institutions to keep their computers free of malware and viruses, but is Kaspersky anti-virus software safe? The Trump administration seems to think not.
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