Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky has fired back at accusations that his company’s software was used to carry out spying for the Russian government, and said that if the Kremlin did ask the security firm to do anything wrong, he’d take the company out of the country. Reports have linked the use of Kaspersky software with the theft of NSA hacking tools, and in September, the US government banned all federal agencies from using Kaspersky software over concerns about the Russian-based company’s ties to the Kremlin.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet