FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky

Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by ajross on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:53PM (#15041810)

Securing domestic computer networks and products from foreign attack surely fits within the FBI's jurisdiction. Obviously there's some overlap with the NSA in this mission (but not DHS -- they have very little in the way of computer crime experts), but this doesn't seem weird to me.

Basically: US law enforcement is telling US companies that Kaspersky products are likely compromised by Russian intelligence. Surely foreign law enforcement is issuing similar warnings about Symantec and McAfee products being compromised by the NSA.

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by enkid on Thursday August 17, 2017 @06:58PM (#15041847)

NSA is DoD systems, DHS is other governmental systems and some critical private sector systems, FBI is counterintelligence investigations. They all overlap and help each other.

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by itchyjunk on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:45PM (#15042820)

NSA is under Intelligence Community[0]. I think Defense Intelligence Agency is DOD's intelligence branch.[1] But my own wiki link is saying both NSA and DIA don't have parent agencies so idk..

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[0]http://www.dia.mil/

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by bebop on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:18AM (#15043524)

Both the NSA and the DIA are under the DoD. Both are intelligence agencies and are part of the IC. All of the IC members fall under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA and DIA differ in their missions. The NSA is primarily focused on Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) whereas the DIA is focused on Human Intelligence (HUMINT), mostly pertaining to foreign militaries.

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by AstralStorm on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:30AM (#15044500)

Those are euphemisms for spying and traitors.

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by novaleaf on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:13PM (#15054141)

more like "professional terminology"

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by munin on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:09PM (#15042912)

This is all spelled out in EO 12333 : https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...

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Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky by briandear on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:54AM (#15044591)

DHS has a lot of computer crime experts– the United States Secret Service being the huge one.

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