[kictanet] Are we protecting national data?

[S.M. Muraya]

Kenya's *future* Data Protection act should require *Kenyan* IT authorities
to vet/investigate foreign software/services..

Our laws including the constitution mention "the national interest".

https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq

Yep, there's more. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 5 that Russians
had used Kaspersky's software to steal NSA secrets
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108>
from
a staffer's home laptop. In 2015, the antivirus scanner picked up the NSA's
hacking tools, which landed in the Kremlin's hands, according to the report.

And then on Oct. 10, The New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence
caught Russian hackers looking for secret files
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html>
in
real time using Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software. The software had become
an advanced search engine for Russian hackers to steal data, the Times
reported.

CyberScoop also reported on the same day
<https://www.cyberscoop.com/kaspersky-fbi-cia-fsb-demarche-2015/> that
Kaspersky Lab and the US government had a tense confrontation in 2015 after
the security company boasted to FBI agents during a sales pitch that the
software could be used as a tool for spying on terrorists.

Read more...
https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq
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