The Lithuanian government said in a statement Kaspersky Labs software was “a potential threat to. This month Britain’s main cybersecurity agency warned British government agencies to avoid using anti-virus software from Russian companies. government networks this year because of concerns the company has close ties to intelligence agencies in Moscow and that its software could be used to enable Russian spying. Kaspersky’s anti-virus software was banned from U.S. Government agencies can only continue running it if their computers are not deemed sensitive by the cybersecurity agency. The software will be removed from computers that control critical infrastructure such as energy, finance or transport including those run by private companies. It is the latest setback for the software maker. The binding directive issued by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke ordered federal departments to identify any use or presence of Kaspersky products on their information systems in the next 30 days and to implement plans to remove them within 90 days, DHS said.VILNIUS: Software from Moscow-based company Kaspersky Lab is a threat to Lithuanian national security and its products will be banned on sensitive computers, Lithuania’s government said on Thursday. It will take some time to stop the government from using Kaspersky products. He said American employees had been leaving the company at a rapid pace in recent weeks. federal government business is small, but the reputational damage from a federal ban would be huge. Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS via Getty Images fileĪ former senior official at the company told NBC News that the company's U.S.

A view of the Kaspersky Lab headquarters in Moscow in February 2017.

Kaspersky Lab paid former national security adviser Michael Flynn $11,250 in 2015 for cybersecurity consulting, according to public documents, but that was not a focus of the FBI questioning, multiple sources said.

He graduated in 1987 from the Soviet KGB-backed Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science. The company's cybersecurity software is widely used in the United States, and its billionaire owner, Eugene Kaspersky, has close ties to some Russian intelligence figures, according to U.S.

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