A heavy dose of outer space
Most computer science research that deals with malware is focused on how to block it. But whoever put the Flame package together apparently had advanced math and computer science skills, since it performs a cryptographic attack that surprised leading researchers in the field. The week's science news generally went further afield: the transit of Venus, a distant black hole, and the very birth of the Universe. Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists: The spy malware achieved an attack unlike any cryptographers have seen before. Dispatches from the...
Published By: Ars Technica - Saturday, 9 June, 2012
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