hackers they might be interested in and hone in on the particular contractor as you noted made the violation of taking classified material home with him from his office at the nsa. and, shane, can you tell us from your reporting if kaspersky software was able to identify first of all his computer that there was classified information on his computer, and then, further it could identify which files might be of interest to these spies? there s still some key things we don t know about precisely how it went about, the identification and we have learned about the investigation is that kaspersky did the scan if you like an registered the files harp on the xutder and it is important to note that anti-virus software does work this way. it makes a note of what s on the machine to make sure there s not something that s not supposed to be there, ie, a virus. anti-virus software. at some point a catalog if you like, this menu of what was on there, that s available to the hackers that then got
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broke that remarkable story about kaspersky software. that s how we learned that before trump national security adviser mike flynn took money from kaspersky, his own agency, the defense intelligence agency, had published multiple reports and even a pentagon-wide warning saying that kaspersky was from russian intelligence. now both paul sund and shane harris are leaving the wall street journal as of this week. the journal has also shed devlin barrett who has been a scoop machine on a lot of stories over the years but in particular on this trump russia scandal. the wall street journal also lost adam entis who ended up breaking that big story during the transition, eric prince had
intelligence agency that handles matters like this and lots else. it s called the defense intelligence agency, the d.i.a. apparently, they were warning about it as early as 2004. then, sometime after 2009, the threat analysis center at the d.i.a. started circulating within the pentagon the assessment that this software was a tool of the russian government. then, as early as 2012, d.i.a. started sharing that analysis, that warning about the software, they started sharing that not just within various acquisition programs in the pentagon, they started sharing that warning with other agencies in the u.s. government, as well. and then, this ends up being important, in 2013, the d.i.a., the defense intelligence agency, they did a full-blown report on the software being linked to russia intel. according to reporting, in 2013, the d.i.a. issued a pentagon-wide threat assessment
sharing that analysis, warning about kaspersky software, sharing warning with other agencies in the u.s. government as well. and this ends up being important. 2013, dia, defense intelligence agency did a full-blown formal report on kaspersky software being linked to russian intel. according to reporting, pentagon-wide threat assessment about products made by kaspersky lab. that report itself hasn t been revealed by the pentagon, still secret. but we know the point of it, warning about kaspersky and russia. so even though every other agency has until roy moore day, december 12th, to get rid of this software, pentagon has done that.
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