WHOA US Treasury Dept just sanctioned leadership at 🇷🇺Russian #antivirus company #kaspersky.
Comes on heels of yesterday's Commerce Dept. ban on sales of their antivirus to the US.
Huge-but-somewhat-anticipated blow to #Kaspersky whose fortunes in the US have been falling since the 2017 DHS binding directive to remove their products from gov systems.
Fascinating to see if other governments echo some of these actions.
2/ #Kaspersky situation = teachable moment for painful truths about antivirus software.
1- Massive marketing has instilled the instinctive and INCORRECT belief that in regular users that antivirus products are the most important security step.
This is massively out of step with expert security recommendations.
People continue to get soaked by AV companies selling products that don't provide nearly as much protection as they think.
4/ Maybe you sort of trust the company that makes your antivirus to not be quietly taking copies of your sensitive project files for a foreign intelligence service.
Well, here's the thing, the kind of access that #antivirus gets to your system combined with the need to run checks against files means that it has a really juicy surface for attack.
Hence the stream of research pointing out the many, many ways that popular antivirus products can be exploited.
@jsrailton kaspersky is trusted brand for securing PCs for years and having large user base in the US however in war time you can't trust your enemies to secure you!
Die US-Behörden haben das Antivirenprogramm der russischen Firma Kaspersky verboten. Begründet wurde die Entscheidung mit den Cyberangriffs-Fähigkeiten Russlands und einem möglichen Einfluss der Regierung auf Kaspersky.
Finde nur ich seltsam, dass die Zahlen, die #Kaspersky in ihrem jährlichen #Stalkerware Bericht veröffentlichen, darauf basieren, was ihre eigene Malware-Software findet? Wie repräsentativ ist das denn?
Und @heiseonline , was genau habt Ihr Euch dabei gedacht, just die (angeblich) steigende Zahl der Leute zu featuren, die Online-Stalking akzeptabel fänden? Habt Ihr die Umfrage gesehen? Was genau wurde da gefragt? Und warum finden die das?