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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