Rsa hack 2011

Two, the attack demonstrates that even security companies are vulnerable to simple social engineering techniques. Three, a common form of 2-Factor authentication was compromised, possibly leaving many millions of users at risk.

Hackers sent RSA employees two emails over two days. When the spreadsheet opened, Excel triggered the Flash exploit to activate, which then injected a backdoor — in this case a backdoor known as Poison Ivy — onto the system. From there, the hackers could remotely control the machine, reaching the systems and data they sought.

The true impact of this hack has never been fully explained by RSA. Employees, via social engineering, were once again shown to be the easiest entry point for hackers. I assume - is right, that the Troll-tool has little useful activities outside wasting time on blogs it does not understand. And whilst they will get away with things by adding length every year or so, to increase a potential attackers resource usage that quickly becomes unproductive….

For example, people are talking about RSA key lengths of 8,, bits or bytes. The PC banking form initially would have to accept my requested transfer but internally ask the banking server for both, the requested and diversion details, send both to the device, and finally send only the diverted transaction including the generated diversion code.

OK, user reading the encrypted data of the intended transfer from PC screen and manually typing it into the device would stop even this double hack. Thanks for making me think! So arguably there is an incentive to do it. That is nolonger so, and OK who ever tried to steal the Bangladeshi Money did not get the Billion, due to a tiny slip up.

That is they have the down stream parts already sorted out and whilst they have provided a service in the past to criminals, they now see advantages in doing the whole thing without having to pay others. Part of that complacency is we do not think about other entities in the correct way, so we make assumptions. Can I see ways to mitigate the behaviours of Banks, Security Companies, and Cloud Providers so that having a credit card, online banking or online shopping carries only marginal loss potential?

Yes I can. I suspect it is similar observations made by Ross J. Everyone has a price, right Art? TLS is not enough. If you assume they employ narcissist incompetents with anger issues and bad impulse control. But maybe they have HRM problems with skills shortages. So this task might have been shoved down the feeding chain until it reached the bottom of the barrel. Thus anti-non-US stories were broken by Murdoch Journalists, that is where the brain blood clot stories originated from. Something the European Drugs Agency was at pains to point out, but it got quite deliberatly down played and ignored by certain journalists.

What you probably will not have heard is that whilst the incidence of brain blood clots with AZ is very slightly higher than it is with Pfizer, the incidence of hepatic portal clots is over fifty times that of AZ for Pfizer, which is of concern.

The information is publically available via the various adverse effects reporting systems, but you have to know how to search the databases to find it.

The US executive also started a political disinformation campaign against China over Wuhan, and unfortunately this is still persisting and getting worse by innuendo not facts. Whilst this propaganda appeared to be aimed at Western nations in the Northern Hemisphere it is actually being used to delay or stop vaccinations in large parts of the world, which for the US and their favoured drugs companies means more profit and influance as SARS-2 rapidly spreads and new varients arise and get effectively ignored untill they have a good community foothold in many countries.

Part of the attacks by the US are in response to early help pushed by China to poor nations. Contrary to what many are led to believe this was not started by the Chinese Government but individual Chinese industrial billionairs, as charity. But it appears that disinformation is now beong run and this includes false flag operations and financing much the same as was seen back in the run up to the US elections and earlier Brexit which by the way is curently happening again in Switzerland over treaty renegotiations.

So the FDA having received the data they requested in the very specific way they requested then, fully knowing there was other data available as it had openly gone to other regulators and been made available if the FDA had wanted it, then accused AZ of witholding it.

The online Anti-vaxxer movement is largely driven by 12 people. The most prolific is Joseph Mercola. Mercola is an alternative medicine promoter who runs a multimillion dollar online business selling treatments and dietary supplements. This initial attack vector was not particularly difficult. The attacker would not be able to exploit the vulnerability in Flash if the victim was running a later version of Windows or Microsoft Office, or if she had limited access to install programs on her computer.

According to RSA representatives, two groups of hackers were involved in the hacking: one highly qualified group used the access of the other. The hackers then began looking for administrator credentials and eventually got to a server containing the credentials of hundreds of users. Most smaller banks in the USA have signed on with one of the big banking IT providers and outosurced the whole thing. Subscribe to comments on this entry. Remember personal info?

Using smart phones for 2FA makes me cringe. Secondly, Using smart phones for 2FA makes me cringe. Not per se. There is an outside party that has the secret. The bank now has ID-PublicKey relationship. The bank does not have any PrivateKey. The bank can not be hacked to have any PrivateKey be exfiltrated. Based on plenty of historical evidence, that is when they show up. Should not interfere with any intel collection. The traffic analysis will still be functional. Not PC to user to device.

Hopefully, it was Pro Bono. Users want Fast, Cheap, Secure model. Pick one. Compare to Fast, Cheap, Good model. Pick two. I have high level of confidence that I may have ID-ed you. Coviello slammed a fist on the table: They would not only admit to the breach, he insisted, but get on the phone with every single customer to discuss how those companies could protect themselves. For weeks after the hack, the company would only be able to restart production in a diminished capacity.

As the recovery effort got under way, one executive suggested they call it Project Phoenix. Coviello immediately nixed the name. We're going to call this project Apollo We're going to land the ship without injury. He needed to be in the building. He immediately noticed the pale, drawn faces of the staff who had been dealing with the unfolding crisis for more than a week.

In Bedford, Castignola was given a conference room and the authority to ask for as many volunteers from the company as he needed. A rotating group of nearly 90 staffers began the weeks-long, day-and-night process of arranging one-on-one phone calls with every customer.

They worked from a script, walking customers through protective measures like adding or lengthening a PIN number as part of their SecurID logins, to make them harder for hackers to replicate. Castignola remembers walking down the halls of the building at 10 pm and hearing calls on speaker phones behind every closed door. In many cases customers were shouting. At the same time, paranoia was beginning to take hold in the company. The first night after the announcement, Castignola remembers walking by a wiring closet and seeing an absurd number of people walking out of it, far more than he imagined could have ever fit.

RSA staff began to take drastic measures. Executives, not trusting even the new phones, held meetings in person and shared paper copies of documents. The FBI, fearing an accomplice in RSA's ranks because of the apparent level of knowledge the intruders seemed to have of company systems, started doing background checks. The building was swept for bugs. Multiple executives insisted that they did find hidden listening devices—though some were so old that their batteries were dead.

It was never clear if those bugs had any relation to the breach. In every part of the network that the hackers touched, he says, they scrubbed the contents of potentially compromised machines—and even ones adjacent to them.

In late May , about two months after the breach announcement, RSA was still recovering, rebuilding, and apologizing to customers when it was hit with an aftershock: A post appeared on the influential tech blogger Robert X. Everyone at the defense contractor was having their RSA tokens replaced.

Two days later, Reuters revealed the name of the hacked military contractor : Lockheed Martin, a company that represented a cornucopia of ultra-secret plans for weapons and intelligence technologies.

That was like a mushroom cloud. We were back at it again. In the days that followed, defense contractors Northrop Grumman and L-3 were also named in news reports.