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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. Ouch by the+linux+geek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These guys aren't like HBGary - RSA basically invented huge portions of modern cryptography. I'm interested in seeing the specifics on how this happened.

    1. Re:Ouch by dfcamara · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hacking systems very rarely involves breaking cryptography. It's bad reputation for their sys admins but not so for their cryptography experts.

  2. time for new laws! by swell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is just the opening that lawmakers need to promote panic and obliterate resistance to their 'protective legislation', which will surely be filled with special interest items buried in legalese.

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    ...omphaloskepsis often...
  3. Re:Crap, crap, crap by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Explain that to his manager.

    I'll bet $1337 that GP's scenario will occur anyway.