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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Computer viruses
I had written a blog entry recently about the possibility that the Kaspersky Antivirus Company could be involved with the Russian hacking of our election, but I never posted it, just in case it was wrong. The reason I thought that this was a possibility is that I had read that the CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, was a close friend of Putin. In addition, Kaspersky was the first company to forensically uncover the Stuxnet worm and its progeny, Duqu 2.0, that attacked the Iranian nuclear program as well as the entire Kaspersky computer network. This worm was presumably created by the NSA and the Israeli intelligence agencies.
So it was no great surprise that I read today that Ruslan Stoyanov, the Kaspersky Manager in charge of investigating computer hacking, was arrested in Russia and charged with Treason! However, in view of all the recent publicity about Russian computer hacking, this has the definite smell of disinformation.
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