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RSA Token Security Breach

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  1. The Baby Bull The Baby Bull is offline

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 4:57am)

    It's moot for me now, as an American, but I wanted to post this for those of you that might have been affected.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/bu...8security.html
     
  2. tedSTRETCH tedSTRETCH is offline

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 5:04am) in reply to The Baby Bull

    well that took forever to be announced
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  3. ApesAreFun ApesAreFun is offline Moderator/Euro Donk

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 5:20am) in reply to tedSTRETCH

    Wow.
    Scary.
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  4. ShipThisPLZ ShipThisPLZ is offline

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 5:26am) in reply to ApesAreFun

    cliffs?
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  5. C_Bomb C_Bomb is offline

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 7:07am) in reply to ShipThisPLZ

    I did post this back when it happened

    http://www.pocketfives.com/f10017/rs...9/#post6214426
  6. nuttedup nuttedup is offline

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    Jun 8th, 2011 (6/8/2011 7:11am) in reply to ShipThisPLZ

     
    Originally Posted by ShipThisPLZ View Post

    cliffs?

    Hackers were able to "clone" the RSA tokens and were able to successfully access lockheed martin. They were able to do this by figuring out the seed (input to the psuedo-random number generator tied to each token and user). The RSA algorithm is already publicly available so if an attacker can figure out the seed to someone's token they can predict the values displayed on the token at any given time.

    Because of this all SecureIDs will be replaced.
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