Eugene Kaspersky

Stuxnet was discovered by Belarusian antivirus expert Sergey Ulasen, who was working for Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. Later, he moved to Kaspersky. This is how it was discovered: "It all started when the technical support guys informed me about a rather unusual case: a customer in Iran reported arbitrary BSODs and computer reboots. They forwarded me the help-request together with info about their preliminary scanning reports." Read the amazing interview here: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-serg…

Kaspersky's response for greater justice: http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2015/03/20/a-practical-guide-to-making-up-…

Rather than having a daily list, I use Feeder (Chrome extension: http://feeder.co/) to read my RSS feeds, I had always preferred it to Google Reader, I never did get myself into the mantra of checking Reader often (it ended up being once every few months, when I randomly remembered) ; however Feeder is nice in its minimalistic approach, just showing me how many items for each feed, which encourages me to zero it out, although unlike Reader it just shows the titles of RSS feed items, so I end up judging whether or not to read an article based on the title. A few feeds I follow: News * Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss [a lot of the posts are repeated over both, and note these are not necessarily the front page posts, my guess is that they are upvoted new posts, so I end up reading some posts before they reach the front page]) * Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/ (http://www.phoronix.com/rss.php) * ThreatPost - http://threatpost.com/ (http://threatpost.com/feed) * TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/ (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb) * Wired - http://www.wired.com/ (http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index) * iClarified - http://www.iclarified.com/ (http://iclarified.com/rss/rss.xml) * TorrentFreak - https://torrentfreak.com/ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Torrentfreak) * r/WorldNews - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss) Blogs * Securelist -…

Its stuff like this. Phone recieves message, runs code embedded in msg for nfi reason why literally starting off the chain of events/exploits to hack yo device. https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2023/06/01/a-matter-of-triangulation/ We've had a few of these types of entry points in phones now over the years. Enough that if its still happening its probably by design as a favor to a 3 letter agency.

>Despite many ups and downs, we eventually managed to obtain all the stages used in this attack, including four zero-day exploits reported to Apple, two validators, an implant and its modules. Looks like NSA still hasn't forgiven Kaspersky for exposing STUXNET [1]. It seems that this latest attack on Kaspersky was expensive. Losing 4 zerodays must have been painful. It's also possible that Israel and Unit 8200 [2] was behind this but my money's on the NSA. [1] https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-serg… [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/israel-hacked-k…

https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2015/03/20/a-practical-guide-to-making-up… "For the record: I never worked for Russian military intelligence. As I mentioned above, I worked as a software engineer at the Ministry of Defense."

Interesting to look at these links, all 5+ years old: 1. Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals 2. What Wired Is Not Telling You – a Response to Noah Shachtman’s Article in Wired Magazine 3. HN Discussion on 2 _____________________________ [1]: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/ [2]: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/07/25/what-wired-is-not-telling-you-… [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340309

This puts in perspective the Eugene Kaspersky's recent rant about Microsoft making AV vendors life harder: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/10/thats-it-ive-had-enough/ Maybe Microsoft is actually improving the Windows users experience. Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12929230

Security through obscurity. I thought we all have learned that it doesn't work. Well, good riddance, KasperskyOS! "And then there are some details that will remain for certain customers’ eyes only forever, to ward off cyber-terrorist abuses." https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/10/16/kl-developing-its-own-operatin…

Nice of you to say but what about this: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/10/thats-it-ive-had-enough/ Obviously Kaspersky isn't open source, but the tiger's stripes certainly haven't changed. Also, Microsoft bundling Windows 10 upgrade malware into its security update channel has turned me off Microsoft, probably forever. Still don't understand why installing 10 after being told not to isn't a CFAA violation.

Eugene Kaspersky isn't too fond of AV-Test. https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2013/05/09/av-test-certification-devalued…

Make sure to read the response from the man himself - http://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/07/25/what-wired-is-not-telling-you-a… And, yes, this has been on HN before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4340309