- Could US cyberspies have moles inside Microsoft?
- "US government officials could be working under cover at Microsoft to help the country's cyber-espionage programme, according to one leading security expert.
- The warning comes in the wake of the Flame virus that targeted key computers in the Middle East, and in part used confidential Microsoft certificates in order to access machines.
- According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, the claim is a logical conclusion to a series of recent discoveries and disclosures linking the US government to 2010's Stuxnet attack on Iran and ties between Stuxnet and the recent Flame attack.
- “The announcement that links Flame to Stuxnet and the conclusive proof that Stuxnet was a US tool means that Flame is also linked to the US government,” Hypponen said."
- "“This makes you think that this breach of Microsoft's update system was done by the Americans and most likely a US agency, someone like the NSA,” Hypponen said. “That must make Microsoft mad as hell that its most critical system, used by 900 million of its customers, was breached by fellow Americans.”"
- Continued:
- http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/375169/could-us-cyberspies-have-moles-inside-microsoft
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- US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/15/1614219/us-security-services-may-have-moles-within-microsoft-says-researcher
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