Subj : Australia Bans Kaspersky Software Over National Security and Espionages
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : TheCivvie
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 22:36:32

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to TheCivvie <=-

-=>> TheCivvie wrote to All <=-
 KW>
 Th>>  Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of
 Th>> security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national
 Th>> security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I
 >> have
 Th>> determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
 Th>> services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable
 Th>> security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,
 KW>
 KW>  I was just thinking back to when we had a more robust desktop security
 KW>  platform - Avast, Kapersky, and others made a more resilient desktop
 KW>  security landscape. Most home desktops are just running Defender.

That is scary that we have come to the stage where Defender is considered safe. I have only 1 wiindows PC and it was the first thing I did was to disable it. It is a forecast machine and no ports open. I grab the text files on the lan

 KW>  I suppose corporate networks still have desktop AV, except now it's in
 KW>  EDR packages like Crowdstrike and Trend Micro.
 KW>

After their 2024 incident, I bet Crowdstrike play it much safer with updates :)

TC


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