17 February 2009 Stanislav Shevchenko, head of the antivirus division at Kaspersky Labs, is a busy man these days. While the crisis has largely spared Russia’s IT industry, there are still a good number of programmers out of work, some willing to use nefarious means to make a ruble.
Security and the Net: “An unidentified hacker announced yesterday that he has managed to gain access to databases used by the usa.kaspersky.com website, allowing him to gain access to users accounts, activation codes and possibly personal data about Kaspersky customers.”
The U.S. website of the Russian antivirus vendor was hacked and the company’s customer database exposed, but Kaspersky denies data was compromised.
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