{"id":3369,"date":"2012-11-21T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2012-11-21T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:20:02","slug":"us-hacked-french-presidents-computers-in-cyberwarfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"US hacked French president’s computers in ‘cyberwarfare’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express.<\/p>\n

The magazine reported<\/strong><\/a> late Tuesday that the computers of several close advisers to then-president Nicolas Sarkozy \u2013 including Chief of Staff Xavier Musca \u2013 were compromised in May by a computer virus that bears the hallmarks of Flame, which was allegedly\u00a0created<\/strong><\/a> by a U.S.-Israeli team to target Iran’s nuclear program. Anonymous French officials pointed the finger at the United States.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou can be on very good terms with a ‘friendly’ country and still want to guarantee their unwavering support \u2013 especially during a transition period,\u201d an official told the magazine. The alleged spying attack took place a few days before the second round of the French presidential elections, which Sarkozy lost to Francois Hollande, a socialist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reportedly did not deny the allegations when asked point-blank about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no greater partner than France, we have no greater ally than France,\u201d Napolitano reportedly answered<\/strong><\/a>, at the opening of an interview with l’Express. \u201cWe cooperate in many security-related areas. I am here to further reinforce those ties and create new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interview, Napolitano also said that the Flame and Stuxnet viruses had \u201cnever been linked to the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not return a request for comment from The Hill.<\/p>\n

Parts of this article have been translated from the French. Read the original here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express. The magazine reported late Tuesday that the computers of several close advisers to then-president Nicolas Sarkozy \u2013 including Chief of Staff Xavier Musca \u2013 were compromised in … Continue reading “US hacked French president’s computers in ‘cyberwarfare’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2196,534,2199,2197,745,2198],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-france","tag-janet-napolitano","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-usa","tag-xavier-musca"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/cyberwarfare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}