Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/australia-bans-kaspersky-software-over.html


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Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/australia-bans-kaspersky-software-over.html


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TheCivvie wrote to All <=-

Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national
security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable
security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

I was just thinking back to when we had a more robust desktop security
platform - Avast, Kapersky, and others made a more resilient desktop
security landscape. Most home desktops are just running Defender.

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

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Kurt Weiske wrote to TheCivvie <=-

TheCivvie wrote to All <=-

Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of
security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national
security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I

have

determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable
security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

I was just thinking back to when we had a more robust desktop security
platform - Avast, Kapersky, and others made a more resilient desktop
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

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

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

TC


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Kurt Weiske wrote to TheCivvie <=-

TheCivvie wrote to All <=-

Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of
security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national
security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I

have

determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable
security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

I was just thinking back to when we had a more robust desktop security
platform - Avast, Kapersky, and others made a more resilient desktop
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

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

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

TC


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TheCivvie wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

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

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

Ironic, since the CEO of Crowdstrike was the CTO of McAfee, when they
had a similar update in 2012 that bricked a large number of their clients, taking them off the net.




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TheCivvie wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

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

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

Ironic, since the CEO of Crowdstrike was the CTO of McAfee, when they
had a similar update in 2012 that bricked a large number of their clients, taking them off the net.

I had forgotten that. History repeats itself ;)

TC


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