Senate votes Kaspersky Lab off its networks
 

It is Putin’s pawn

The U.S. Senate voted to ban Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab’s products from use by the federal government claiming that it may be a pawn of the Kremlin and poses a national security risk.

Kaspersky Lab is a 20-year-old anti-virus company that reaches 400 million customers globally and has vigorously denied that it conducts espionage on behalf of the Russian government.

The vote, which was included as an amendment to an annual defence policy spending bill approved by the Senate, seeks to codify and expand a decision by the Trump administration last week to order civilian government agencies to purge from their networks any Kaspersky Lab products.

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