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Despite pending legislation to ban US federal government offices from using Kaspersky Lab security software, Homeland Security has issued a Binding Operational Directive demanding that the products be removed within 90 days.
The directive gives government IT managers 30 days to identify which – if any – of their systems have Kaspersky software installed, 60 days to develop a plan to get rid of it, and by the 90-day mark it must be uninstalled, unless the DHS advises them otherwise in the meantime.
The other option, mooted by some in the security community, is that the US government is pissed off because Kaspersky has found and reported on multiple instances of malware that appear to have been created by the men and women of the NSA. In the current climate, Russia-bashing is popular and the theory goes that the US intelligence community wants a bit of payback.
