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Lockheed-martin Attack Signals New Era Of Cyber Espionage

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Posted 28 May 2011 - 08:41 PM

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#2 User is offline   CrackMonkeya0ls 

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  Posted 28 May 2011 - 09:33 PM

OK So you can't trust RSA to keep their own data safe how can we trust them with our data? Seems they should have employed better methods to safeguard so sensitive information as the keys to SecureID Tokens.
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  Posted 28 May 2011 - 09:49 PM

The sad part is I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.These guys admitted it, but how many systems are compromised where it either isn't reported or they never even know their systems were compromised. After the sony debacle, it is really starting to look like our data on the internet is not as secure as they would like us to believe.More and more criminals are realizing there is easy money on the net, it is going to get worse, before it gets better.
Just my opinion......YMMV......
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#4 User is offline   CorbettBaker889b 

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  Posted 28 May 2011 - 10:08 PM

This sort of thing happens all the time, security is only as good as the end user.
If Wikigate taught us anything it's that security must be on a need to know basis. It's ironic that private industry is often better at this than the government.
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#5 User is offline   eddyjameszxtx 

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  Posted 28 May 2011 - 10:09 PM

any bets? our comrades the Chinese are at it again.
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  Posted 28 May 2011 - 10:48 PM

You spend trillions of dollars and come with a technology and china invests some million or so dollars and gets the technology blueprints from you! Now you know chinese are clever people.
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  Posted 29 May 2011 - 12:21 AM

The sad part is that everytime anything happens these days it "signals a New Era of XYZ". Give me a break. From what I've read the RSA breach was a social engineering attack coupled with a zero-day expoloit. That's not a new era, that's what they call status-quo. As for the targets themselves, RSA, Sony and Lockheed... Well, that's nothing new either. These organizations have been and always will be prime targets for attacks. Eventually and attacker is bound to get through. Frankly, I'm not scared.
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#8 User is offline   oldschoolh4ck3r 

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  Posted 29 May 2011 - 12:43 PM

Problem... reaction... solution... What kind of draconian cybersecurity will be implemented from these well-timed breaches?
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Abort, Retry, Epic Fail? _
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#9 User is offline   TheOldTopkick 

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  Posted 29 May 2011 - 01:07 PM

I checked this article as useful. But I must ask, What is new here?
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#10 User is offline   amcgall 

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  Posted 09 September 2011 - 12:51 PM

The USA owes billions of dollars to China. Most of the US-based multinational companies closed their factories in the US and built them in China while the government turned a blind eye. Do you really think the US will protest very loudly? I think not.
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  Posted 14 April 2012 - 01:02 PM

I struggle to comprehend that some would rather not allow companies and government to flow security information back and forth. Don't people realize that they could be next on another malicious attack on the Net?
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