A Russian website CNews claims that the popular Kaspersky Antivirus source code has been leaked to web and available via torrents and file sharing sites that was stolen by a former employee of Kaspersky Lab who sentenced to three years jail for intellectual property theft. According to CNews, the complete source weighing 182MB in a RAR archive uploaded to a free file hosting site by Unknown. The archive contains a collection of files with code written in C++ tool in Visual C, and assembly files and has already been download 2071 times. Kaspersky Lab confirms that the incident poses no threat to safety of users of products, solutions and services company, explaining that the stolen code refers to an outdated product line. The leaked code was from a beta version of Kaspersky Internet Security 8 and Kaspersky is currently offering version 11 of their Internet Security suite, so I think Kaspersky anti-virus users should not worry about the security but this incident totally ruins Kaspersky's reputation. Read more: WinMarix
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