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  • Exclusive: How a Russian firm helped catch an alleged NSA data thief

    Exclusive: How a Russian firm helped catch an alleged NSA data thief

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    Ryan Dawson
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    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/russia-kaspersky-lab-nsa-cybersecurity-1089131?fbclid=IwAR2E8L91GDQWh5IDmhJAKnMvTp8LdjkOUK24buVHAXLWCbA4eBJyD64G0JM The 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began with an unlikely source: a tip from a Russian cybersecurity firm that the U.S. government has called a threat to the country. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin III in to the NSA after…