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HistoryJun 26, 2024 - 11:06 a.m.

The US Is Banning Kaspersky

2024-06-2611:06:26
Bruce Schneier
www.schneier.com
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us ban
kaspersky
national security
software updates
intelligence community

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This move has been coming for a long time.

> The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The ban–­the first such action under authorities given to the Commerce Department in 2019­–follows years of warnings from the US intelligence community about Kaspersky being a national security threat because Moscow could allegedly commandeer its all-seeing antivirus software to spy on its customers.

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