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Despite repeated vigorous denials, it seems anti-virus company Kaspersky is unable to convince anyone that matters that they are not in league with the Russian govement.Reuters report s that UK’s National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin sent a memo to other govement departments waing them that as Russia is“a highly capable cyber threat actor which uses cyber as a tool of statecraft,” that has the intent to target the UK and its critical infrastructure, computers with info that could harm national security shouldn’t use an anti-virus software developed by a Russian company.In JulyKaspersky was similarly been removed from the US govements approved vendors list after concer...

Germany has been a leader in pushing for more privacy and control of user data in Windows 10, but despite concessions by Microsoft the operating system has not been felt to be secure enough for govement deployment.Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) has, for example, determined that it was not possible to completely control the data stream between the OS and Microsoft’s servers via Windows Group Policy.Fortunately for Microsoft Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior is ready to work with Microsoft for a solution, and is in the process of creating a standard and secured “Federal Client” version of the OS which could be rolled out to all govement computers...

Star Wars Battlefront II’s loot box controversy gathered mainstream attention around the world, and it looks like the situation isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Now, govement officials from the United States, Australia, and Belgium have weighed in ...

Long time foe of Microsoft’s Windows Defender anti-virus, Kaspersky, has been removed from the US govements approved vendors list after conces were raised that the software provided by the vendor could allow the Kremlin access to the US govement’s secure computer systems. The vendor list rela...