{"id":824513,"date":"2024-06-21T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=824513"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T04:52:47","slug":"biden-to-ban-us-sales-of-kaspersky-software-over-ties-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/21\/biden-to-ban-us-sales-of-kaspersky-software-over-ties-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to ban US sales of Kaspersky software over ties to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Thursday will announce plans to bar the sale of Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s antivirus software in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said, citing the firm&#8217;s large U.S. customers including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s close ties to the Russian government were found to pose a critical risk, the person said, adding that the software&#8217;s privileged access to a computer&#8217;s systems could allow it to steal sensitive information from American computers, install malware or withhold critical updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Thursday will announce plans to bar the sale of Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s antivirus software in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said, citing the firm&#8217;s large U.S. customers including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments. The company&#8217;s close ties to the Russian government were found to pose a critical risk, the person said, adding that the software&#8217;s privileged access to a computer&#8217;s systems could allow it to steal sensitive information from American computers, install malware or withhold critical updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}