{"id":824732,"date":"2024-06-21T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=824732"},"modified":"2024-06-21T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T06:10:59","slug":"biden-bans-us-sales-of-kaspersky-software-over-russia-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/21\/biden-bans-us-sales-of-kaspersky-software-over-russia-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia&#8217;s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing the firm&#8217;s large US customers, including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s influence over the company was found to pose a significant risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a briefing call with reporters on Thursday. The software&#8217;s privileged access to a computer&#8217;s systems could allow it to steal sensitive information from American computers or install malware and withhold critical updates, enhancing the threat, a source added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia&#8217;s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing the firm&#8217;s large US customers, including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments. Moscow&#8217;s influence over the company was found to pose a significant risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on a briefing call with reporters on Thursday. The software&#8217;s privileged access to a computer&#8217;s systems could allow it to steal sensitive information from American computers or install malware and withhold critical updates, enhancing the threat, a source added.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824732","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=824732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}