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RSA's Servers Hacked

Posted by timothy on from the blame-israel-everyone-else-does dept.

Khopesh writes "EMC subsidiary RSA was the victim of 'an extremely sophisticated cyber attack' which resulted in the possible theft of the two-factor code used by their SecurID products." The Boston Herald has a short article on the intrusion. Update: 03/17 23:54 GMT by T : Reader rmogull adds "With all the hype that's sure the explode over this one, we decided to do a quick write-up to separate fact from speculation."

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  1. Re:Ouch by dAzED1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    likely a soft hack. Insider, or simply seducing an engineer with a cute girl.

  2. Crap, crap, crap by pedantic+bore · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can imagine how this is going to play out when the IT folks at my company find out about this. They'll panic, revoke all the SecureID cards, and then no more working from home until something much more complicated, unreliable, and probably requiring Windows7 is found to replace it.

    Crap!

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    1. Re:Crap, crap, crap by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Explanations are futile. The CEOs have already been assimilated.

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  3. Re:time for new laws! by thestudio_bob · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quick! Flip the internet kill switch!!!!

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  4. Re:Ouch by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, well we're talking about crypto engineers, so only the 'girl' condition is essential, not the 'cute' condition.

    It's also essential she not call herself "Eve". The crypto guys catch onto that one immediately.

  5. Re:Can someone please... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I salted the popcorn and it ROT13ed.

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  6. Re:Ouch by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's also essential she not call herself "Eve". The crypto guys catch onto that one immediately.

    She fooled them by spelling her nick backwards.

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