In our latest Security Ledger Podcast we talk about Kaspersky Lab’s Cold War tinged smack down with for NSA analyst Dave Aitel of Immunity Inc. Also: Bruce Schneier weighs in on what has and hasn’t changed in the Trump DOJ’s take on strong encryption, while Josh Corman of PTC tells us that federal rules governing IoT security may be closer than we think. To say the past week has been a tough one for Moscow-based security software firm Kaspersky Lab* is the understatement of this young century. The company, which has been dogged by rumors of connections to Russia’s intelligence agency the FSB, was the subject of a Wall street journal article that fleshed out those rumors. The article, by Gordon Lubold and Shane Harris of the Journal alleged the company’s anti virus software was used by Russian intelligence to help steal classified hacking tools from the NSA. That story was followed […]

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