Security firm RSA Security breached

RSA Security is one of the biggest players in the enterprise security landscape, featuring advanced authentication, access control and data loss prevention products. The hype about the breach occurred to the company spread to almost every security news website. Company’s CEO announced, in a “urgent” message, that the breach is to be considered an APT – advanced persistent threat. The last time we heard about this term was during the days of Aurora exploit where Fortune 50 US companies, including Google, suffered data loss due to a targeted attack from Chinese IP addresses. Regardless the use and abuse of the term, this is a targeted breach for which there’s still not much information. The fact that this term is being used again, might refer to similarities in the way the breach has been conducted: a long term infiltration through custom malware built to steal specific internal projects documents. As for....