18 March 2011 RSA Security breached in sophisticated attack

RSA Security, one of the best known two-factor authentication vendors on the planet, has reportedly been the victim of a successful network attack, with an unknown quantity of data removed from systems belonging to the giant. Concerns exist that the cryptographic seeds – the values and algorithms that all RSA SecureID keyfob values are calculated from – may have been stolen as part of the attack.

More information at:

http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3872

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/rsa_breach_leaks_securid_data/

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