Old Kaspersky anti-virus source code leaked

Posted on Saturday, January 29 2011 @ 20:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Word is going around that old source code of one of Kaspersky's older security products has been leaked online at torrent and file hosting websites:
Yesterday, we reported about the complete source code of an older Kaspersky product being available on publicly accessible torrent and file hosting sites.

The code was last modified in December 2007 and judging by the directory tree it probably corresponds to a beta version of Kaspersky Internet Security 8.0.

Russian technology publication CNews quotes [Google translation] a Kaspersky Lab spokesperson, according to whom a former employee with legitimate access to the source code stole it in early 2008.

It's not clear if he did it out of revenge or entirely for profit, but he ended up offering it for sale on the black market.
More info Softpedia.


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