MOSCOW, June 23 – RIA Novosti. US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Centre (GCHQ) worked together to neutralize the anti-virus software, in particular – Kaspersky Anti-Virus and other software (software) security systems to keep track of user activity and to penetrate the network of workers, according to the portal Intercept citing documents be made public ex-employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and NSA Edward Snowden.
As According to the portal of the Government Communications UK believed the program “Kaspersky Lab” obstacle to work, so he was looking for ways to neutralize the program. Agency used the technology of reverse software to identify weaknesses in the software security of the Russian company.
“on individual security, such as the Russian Kaspersky Anti-Virus continues to be an obstacle in the work of GCHQ, so the technology is important to back up the development of programs that can prevent recognition (Kaspersky – ed.) of our activities “, – quotes the text of the declassified document portal.The technology back up the commonly used by developers to ensure that their programs are compatible with the programs of other companies or to identify security weaknesses before they are discovered by third parties.
“If you write a program that can deceive Antivirus, you are likely to get a huge access (to the root folder, system or even the operating system kernel) in just one click “, – quotes the portal researcher Singapore consulting firm Safety Dzhokseana Koret (Joxean Koret).
According to him, today in terms of security, most antivirus programs lag far behind web browsers or programs for reading text. This means, according to the Koret that “Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word or Google Chrome harder to learn than 90% of anti-virus products”.
According to the site, “Kaspersky Lab” serves more than 270,000 customers and using its products ensures the safety of more than 400 million people.
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