Most furloughed federal employees would have had to turn in their BlackBerries and other mobile devices in a U.S. government shutdown. Just as well, using the technology could have resulted in an employee landing in the slammer.
The advanced persistent threat attack against RSA has raised the visibility of multifactor authentication technology to potential users. And, in the long run, that might help RSA's bottom line.
After the revelation of Operation Aurora, the term began to take on a different meaning. "In essence," IBM's X-Force report says, "APT became associated with any targeted, sophisticated or complex attack regardless of the attacker, motive, origin or method of operation."
RSA executives haven't been commenting publicly since the security solutions vendor revealed last week it had been victimized by a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at its SecurID two-factor authentication product. But weeks before the hack, I spoke with RSA Chief Technology Officer Bret Hartman about advanced...
Has an alleged Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear facilities entered the realm of warfare? It may not be a cyberwar, as defined by many experts, but it sure feels like one.
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