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Hacker Calovskis: IT security improving, but number of security holes also rising

BC, Riga, 20.10.2017.Print version
While IT security has been steadily improving, the number of security holes has also been rising, Deniss Calovskis, who was convicted of cyber crimes in the United States last December, said in an interview with Latvian Television yesterday, reports LETA.

Calovskis is the head of the eighth annual international cyber security conference DSS ITSEC that is taking place in Riga.


When asked to comment on cyber security problems from Latvia's standpoint, Calovskis said that IT security had been steadily improving, but so the number of security holes was also increasing.


Antiviruses scan and have access to all the files in a computer, added Calovskis. "It may be that some antiviruses work in some security agencies' interest," said Calovskis, explaining that no one could be sure of anything these days.


Nevertheless, computer systems today are far better thought-out and protected than at the end of the 1990s or the beginning of the 2000s.


As for the European Union's personal data protection directive, Calovskis said he believed that many companies were not prepared for the regulation's requirements.


As reported, a U.S. district court last December convicted Latvian citizen Calovskis of cyber crimes and sentenced him to twenty-and-a-half months in prison - which he had already served in jail and pretrial custody pending extradition to the United States. He was detained in Latvia in November 2012 and extradited to the United States in February 2015. Calovskis has since returned to Latvia.






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