(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 1, 2017 a woman passes the logo of Kaspersky Lab, Russia's leading antivirus software development company, during the 10th Russian Internet Week in Moscow. - The computer security firm Kaspersky Labs helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches -- one year before the US banned the company's products for government use, US media has reported january 10, 2019. Politico and the Washington Post said the Moscow-based maker of anti-malware products told the National Security Agency that one of its contractors, Harold Martin, had contacted it via cryptic messages on Twitter. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
WASHINGTON: The computer security firm Kaspersky Labs helped the US NSA spy agency uncover one of its worst-ever security breaches – one year before the US banned the company’s products for government use, US media has reported.
Politico and the Washington Post said the Moscow-based maker of anti-malware products told the National Security Agency that one of its contractors, Harold Martin, had contacted it via cryptic messages on Twitter.
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