NSA Spied On Non-American Anti-Virus Companies

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Russian giant Kaspersky, Finnish firm F-Secure, Romania’s BitDefender, Germany’s Avira,

Slovakia’s ESET, South Korean giant AhnLab, as well as Czech vendors AVG and Avast.

Some firm’s may have been on the list purely because of their association with Kaspersky.
Israel’s Check Point, which licenses the Kaspersky anti-virus engine for its consumer product, ZoneAlarm, was also a target.

Older versions of F-Secure also used the Kaspersky signature database, which contained lists of blacklisted malware.

But American anti-virus leaders McAfee and Symantec were not on the list.
Neither was Sophos, the UK’s best-known anti-virus provider.

All three have numerous ex-government employees and have close working relationships with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, from the NSA to the FBI to the European Cyber Crime Center.

Forbes

The Intercept

[flitox]

don't worry, NSA is only spying for the bad guys.... :lol:

[snf]

don't worry, NSA is only spying for the bad guys.... :lol:

if only it was true <_<

[steven36]

Thing is it was not just NSA that done it the British was doing it too. NSA and GCHQ was picking out about 10 files a day that were uploaded to the AVs and making there own malware from them, :s


US and British Spies Targeted Antivirus Companies

Now newly published documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, were years ahead of Israel and had engaged in a systematic campaign to target not only Kaspersky software but the software of other antivirus and security firms as far back as 2008.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/us-british-spies-targeted-antivirus-companies/

[software182]

don't worry, NSA is only spying for the bad guys.... :lol:

but NSA itself is the bad guy :mellow:

[snf]

Users.

You do what you want but:

Next week France passes legislation for do exactly the same of NSA.

By French services secret.

French user use good VPNs ; no dedicated server in france germany Us British Canada Autralia.

For other user don't use the same dedicated server.

Regards.

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Echelon

...is the answer...