RSA Breach: Eight Months Later
More than eight months after the RSA SecurID breach bombshell was dropped on the industry, security professionals still whisper among themselves at the long-term ramifications of what RSA called the extraction of "information related to the RSA SecurID product." To this day, RSA still won't confirm what exactly was stolen from its systems, but speculation has run high that the token seeds were compromised in some way.
Given the paucity of information coming from its quarters, security experts are left to speculate on whether we may still see an attack leveraging information stolen from RSA. But the bigger question may be how the breach will change the authentication scene and the security industry at large.
For its part, RSA doesn't try to sugarcoat things. Company spokespeople couldn't say there would be no future attacks using old tokens, but did point out to the best of RSA's knowledge there's only been one customer confirmed to have been attacked using information stolen from RSA in the breach, that being an attack against Lockheed Martin that the defense contractor was able to stave off.
