Webcast on Mitigating Risk Posed by Compromised RSA Tokens Now Available On Demand
Recent attacks against defense contractors Lockheed Martin, L-3, and Northrop Grumman are reportedly leveraging information about RSA SecurID tokens obtained through a breach at RSA earlier this year. These attacks demonstrate that compromised SecurID tokens are being actively exploited by attackers to infiltrate some of the most secure networks in the world. You can’t help [...]
Over Half of IT Professionals Evaluating Two-Factor Alternatives Following the RSA Breach
A survey, conducted by PhoneFactor in March 2011, revealed that organizations that utilize security tokens, many of which are already frustrated with the burden tokens place on their IT departments and end users, are being driven to action by the recent RSA breach. The survey of more than 400 information technology professionals from a wide [...]
Increase In Successful Phishing Attacks Expected Following Epsilon Breach
I received my sixth email today from a company I do business with (one was from a bank) alerting me that my email address had been compromised as part of the massive breach at Epsilon. The company, an online marketing unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp., sends more than 40 billion emails a year on [...]
RSA Breach Impacts
In mid-March, RSA announced that a security breach had resulted in the disclosure of information “specifically related to RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication products.” RSA states that “this information could potentially be used to reduce the effectiveness of a current two-factor authentication implementation.” While RSA has released little information about the extent of the breach, there’s [...]
