How to better prepare for cyber threats? As the emergence of digital viruses seems to spiral out of control, computer virology is becoming a science in its own right. In France, the High Security Laboratory (LHS) detects malicious codes and works on those of tomorrow. A joint laboratory at the University of Lorraine, CNRS and Inria, which can be compared to P4 laboratories for human or animal biology and virology. It also studies the proliferation of computer virus variants. Its co-founder, the scientist Jean-Yves Marion, is our guest from Nancy. Interview.
It's a spy case that comes to the surface. The United States would have listened to several European leaders in 2012 and 2014. At the heart of these eavesdropping in troubled waters: the Danish submarine cables. Kilometers of cables, placed at the bottom of the sea and through which telephone and Internet communications pass. There are 447 in the world. And these cables feed connection points to which the secret services only have to plug themselves. The whistleblower Edward Snowden had already revealed the existence of a Trojan horse allowing the NSA to intercept the traffic of 46 of these European cables. Report with our colleagues from France 2.
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