Kaspersky Lab has 400 million users worldwide, and that global reach is starting to worry U.S. national security officials. Its boisterous boss, Eugene Kaspersky, insists that claims of ties to the Kremlin are “total BS.” But now internal company emails show that the company has maintained a much closer working relationship with Russia's main intelligence agency, the FSB, than it has publicly admitted.
From Bloomberg:
Read Full Article »Antivirus companies are especially delicate because the products they make have access to every file on the computers they protect. The software also regularly communicates with the maker to receive updates, which security experts say could theoretically provide access to sensitive users such as government agencies, banks, and internet companies. Adding to the U.S. government's jitters, Kaspersky recently has developed products designed to help run critical infrastructure such as power grids.
