Prominent cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab poses a danger to U.S. security, warns Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who is pushing to prohibit the federal government from using the Moscow-based company’s products.
In a New York Times column, Shaheen alleges that the company has “extensive” ties to Russian intelligence, noting that the firm’s founder Eugene Kaspersky graduated from the KGB’s elite cryptology institute. The company, she adds, provides security services to U.S. government agencies such as the Department of State, the National Institutes of Health and, reportedly, the Department of Defense.
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