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Crypto Legend Quisquater Targeted - But NSA May Not Be To Blame

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-wasn't-us-this-time dept.

judgecorp writes "Reports that the NSA and/or Britain's GCHQ deliberately targeted Belgian cryptography professor Jea-Jacques Quisquater may be jumping to conclusions, the professor has said. Investigation of an apparent NSA/GCHQ hack of Belgian ISP Belgacom uncovered evidence that Quisquater's PC had been infected with malware and had data extracted. However the two incidents might be coincidence: similar malware is used by Asian attackers, he said."

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  1. Re:TFA doesn't tell much... by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some more at http://www.infosecurity-magazi... is6
    "He received a fake LinkedIn invite from a non-existent person in the European patent office (Quisquater holds 17 patents).
    This dropped a variant of the MiniDuke malware which covertly opens a backdoor onto the infected computer."
    and http://www.infosecurity-magazi...

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  2. Re:Crypto Legend? by Fref · · Score: 3, Informative

    The french page is more thorough http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... I was a student of his, and he is indeed well known in the field of cryptography. This might give you a glimpse of his relevance: http://scholar.google.com/cita...