Verizon: RSA Hackers Using Trojans, Keyloggers In Second Wave Attacks

Customers of EMC’s RSA Security division that are worried about being the victim of an attack following the theft of sensitive data relating to that company’s SECURID tokens may not need to rush out and replace those tokens, according to security consulting firm Verizon Business. Efforts to stop...

International Monetary Fund Reportedly Hacked

The International Monetary Fund is the victim of a sophisticated, targeted attack that has compromised an unknown number of systems within the organization, Bloomberg reports. The Washington, D.C. based organization sent employees a memo informing them that a desktop computer within the IMF had...

RSA's SecurID Quandry: Replace or Recall?

RSA acknowledged on Monday that a hack at Lockheed Martin was tied to the theft of information on its SecurID tokens. The company offered to replace the tokens for customers, but experts wonder whether RSA should go further and recall SecurID tokens from the market. After acknowledging that forge...

Report: L3 Warns Employees Of Attacks Using Compromised SecurID Tokens

Executives at U.S. defense contractor L-3 Communications warned employees in April about an attempt by unknown assailants to compromise the company’s network using forged SECURID tokens from RSA. The report, if accurate would be the second attack on a leading defense contractor with links back to...

Paul Kocher on the RSA Attack

Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Kocher of Cryptography Research about the details of the attack on RSA, what the attackers might have stolen and what the compromise of the seed file for the SecurID tokens would mean for customers. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Back-End Software May Be Real Worry in RSA Attack

The attack on RSA that the company revealed last week raises a multitude of questions about the security of the company’s network and its own internal procedures. But the most important issues the RSA attack brings to the surface concern exactly what the attackers may have been after and what the...

Potential DoS Attack on RSA's ACE/Server

Hi folks, RSA Security http://www.rsasecurity.com/ produce a 2 factor secure authentication solution called ACE/Server. This uses SecurID tokens to enforce authentication and runs on NT/2000 and Solaris. It is possible for a nonprivileged user on the same network as the ACE/Server to trivially...