RSA SecurID Attack May Have Also Struck U.S. Defense Orgs

Attackers behind March’s RSA SecurID attack apparently used the same method to try to infiltrate two U.S. national security organizations according to data recently made public by file checking site VirusTotal. Per an IDG News Service story, the malicious Flash-laden Excel spreadsheet was uploade...

Noshir Gowadia (Northrop Grumman)

Gowadia was a longtime employee of defense contractor Northrup and one of the designers of the U.S. military’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. He is believed to have conceived of and designed the B-2’s propulsion system, which protects the bombers from heat seeking missiles. He was arrested in 2005 an...