Kaspersky Lab – USA: ban on its products continues

A U.S. district court has rejected Kaspersky Lab's appeals to block the company's software from federal computers.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sitting in Washington, issued the ruling on Wednesday, dismissing two lawsuits filed by Kaspersky against the United States and the Department of Homeland Security.
The use of Kaspersky products by Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky was banned from all U.S. government agencies after the company was implicated in a spying scandal. The company was accused of gaining access to top-secret NSA data.
Kaspersky had filed two lawsuits challenging the government's accusations, arguing that it violated the Fifth Amendment. But on Wednesday, Judge Kollar-Kotelly ruled in summary judgment that both of Kaspersky’s objections were unfounded and that its products would continue to be banned from government use.
Kaspersky Lab said it would appeal the cases to the appeals court, seeking to overturn Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling.
Kaspersky Lab argues that these actions are the product of unconstitutional practices and unfairly accuse the company without “substantial evidence.”

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