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MADBURY, N.H. — The Kremlin hacked our presidential election, is waging a cyberwar against our NATO allies and is probing opportunities to use similar tactics against democracies worldwide. Why then are federal agencies, local and state governments and millions of Americans unwittingly inviting this threat into their cyber networks and secure spaces? That threat is posed by antivirus and security software products created by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company with extensive ties to Russian intelligence. To close this alarming national security vulnerability, I am advancing bipartisan legislation to prohibit the federal government from using Kaspersky Lab software. Kaspersky Lab insists...

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GENERAL COUNSEL SWEPT UP IN WIDENING PROBE OF BACKDATINGThe stock options scandal in Silicon Valley widened Tuesday as software maker McAfee said it fired its general counsel during an internal review of options-granting practices. Separately, chip design company Rambus said it has launched an internal investigation into how the company doled out options in 2003 and before. McAfee, the Santa Clara-based maker of anti-virus software, fired general counsel Kent Roberts during an internal review of how the company gave out stock options to executives and employees during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The dismissal of Roberts, who had been...