{"id":46331,"date":"2017-10-07T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46331"},"modified":"2017-10-07T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:49:52","slug":"u-s-house-committee-calls-new-hearing-on-kaspersky-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/u-s-house-committee-calls-new-hearing-on-kaspersky-software.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House committee calls new hearing on Kaspersky software"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. House committee calls new hearing on Kaspersky software<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">U.S. House committee calls a new hearing on Kaspersky software:- WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; A U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Friday that it has scheduled a new hearing on Kaspersky Lab software as lawmakers review accusations that the Kremlin could use its products to conduct espionage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Kaspersky Lab has strongly denied those allegations, which last month prompted the Trump administration to order civilian government agencies to purge the software from its networks, and agreed to send Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky to Washington to testify before Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The House Committee on Science, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Space<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">, and Technology announced the Oct. 25 hearing a day after reports that Russian government-backed hackers stole highly classified U.S. cyber secrets in 2015 from a National Security Agency contractor who had Kaspersky software installed on his laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The House science committee did not say who would be called to testify at the hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Eugene Kaspersky last month told Reuters that the committee had invited him to testify at a Sept. 27 hearing and that he would attend if he could get an expedited visa to enter the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">That hearing was later canceled, though the committee held a closed-door classified session on Kaspersky software on Sept. 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Eugene Kaspersky said in a statement on Friday that he hoped to attend the hearing. \u201cI look forward to participating in the hearing once it\u2019s rescheduled and having the opportunity to address the committee\u2019s concerns directly,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">An appearance before Congress would mark Kaspersky\u2019s most high-profile attempt to dispel long-standing accusations that his firm may be conducting espionage on behalf of the Russian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The investigation into the 2015 NSA hack is focused on somebody who worked at the 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