<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Listers</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">The two powers - Russia and the US are at each other's throats and the latest 'victim of this Geopolitical duel is Kaspersky.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:28px;margin-bottom:28px;line-height:28px;letter-spacing:0.3px;color:rgb(40,47,47)"><font face="georgia, serif">For months government officials have <a href="http://fortune.com/2017/07/12/kaspersky-lab-russia-cybersecurity/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(40,47,47);padding:1px 0px">waged a campaign</a> against Kaspersky Labs, a Moscow-based maker of popular antivirus software. Their distrust culminated last month in a <a href="http://fortune.com/2017/09/13/kaspersky-lab-ban-dhs-trump/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(40,47,47);padding:1px 0px">Department of Homeland Security ban</a> on federal networks using the company’s products.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:28px;margin-bottom:28px;line-height:28px;letter-spacing:0.3px;color:rgb(40,47,47)"><font face="georgia, serif">Now we finally have some insight into why the U.S. has been giving one of Russia’s greatest business successes—a protector of more than 400 million people’s computers—<a href="http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/kaspersky-russia-us/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(40,47,47);padding:1px 0px">the snub</a>. According to a much-pored over <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(40,47,47);padding:1px 0px">report by the <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Wall Street Journal</em></a>, an NSA hacker flouted protocol (and all common sense) two years ago by taking work home to a personal computer that ran Kaspersky software. The mistake would prove catastrophic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:28px;margin-bottom:28px;line-height:28px;letter-spacing:0.3px;color:rgb(40,47,47)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;letter-spacing:0.3px">Read on:-</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:28px;margin-bottom:28px;line-height:28px;letter-spacing:0.3px;color:rgb(40,47,47)"><a href="http://fortune.com/2017/10/07/equifax-credit-kaspersky-security-nsa-hack-yahoo/"><font face="georgia, serif">Why the US has knives out for Kaspersky</font></a></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

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