Tag archive: RSA

Last March, infiltrators carried out a quiet cyberattack against RSA, obtaining information about the operation of its SecurID tokens, hardware devices used by corporations, governments, and organizations to establish secure VPN connections with remote employees. RSA admitted the breach in April and began replacing SecurID tokens last June, but now RSA is revealing a bit more about the attack. Speaking at a Q&A session at the RSA… Read More

Adobe's Flash media plug-in for Web browsers doesn't exactly have a stellar security record, requiring several urgent security updates to squelch zero-day exploits. However, computer security experts are now calling attention to Java, noting that many Internet users are running browsers with outdated Java implementations that contain serious security holes of their own. In a session at this year's RSA Conference in San… Read More

The Sinowal Trojan, also known as Torpig and Mebroot, isn’t new. It was first detected by RSA’s Fraud Action Research Lab in February 2006. But it’s one of the most effective Trojans out there. RSA estimates the Sinowal Trojan has taken the details of 270,000 online bank accounts and 240,000 debit and credit cards from financial institutions in a number of countries, including the US, UK, Australia and Poland.… Read More