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U.S. Government Offers Assistance to Lockheed Martin After Security Breach

2011-06-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by admin

News on Twitter buzzed recently as security professionals and hackers alike shared information pertaining to a network breach of top U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Initially it was not immediately clear if any sensitive information was stolen or compromised, but late Saturday evening,Reuters and MSNBC reported “Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government’s top information technology provider, said on Saturday that it detected and thwarted “a significant and tenacious attack” on its information systems network.”

PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in Hack, Web Security/by admin

A Hacker group known as “The Lulz Boat” hacked the PBS website on Sunday and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur who has been dead for 15 years is actually alive and living in New Zealand.

U.S. Government Offers Assistance to Lockheed Martin After Security Breach

2011-06-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by admin

PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in Hack, Web Security/by admin

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U.S. Government Offers Assistance to Lockheed Martin After Security Breach

2011-06-08/0 Comments/in General Security/by admin

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense assisted the company during the computer breach to determine the extent of the incident. It is believed access to Lockheed Martin’s network may be linked to a breach against RSA network earlier this year in March. RSA is the maker of the popular SecurID token, which are the little key chain dongles that generate numbers every 30 or 60 seconds to provide a secure way of logging into computers known as two-factor authentication. Hackers at the time made off with unspecified information related to SecurID data, but many security professionals believe the algorithm used to generate one-time codes supplied by the token were taken.

RSA has about 40 million tokens and 250 million mobile software versions deployed in over 25,000 organizations in various industries, such as banking, government, manufacturing and pharmaceutical to name a few.

Even though Lockheed Martin thwarted off the attacks on its network, organizations should take precautionary measures if they are using the RSA SecurID token system. The National Security Agency (NSA) releasedInformation Assurance Advisory No. IAA-003-2011: Recommended Actions for SecurID Users in Response to RSA Cyber Intrusion. This advisory expands on the information previously released by NSA via Information Assurance Alert No. IAR-001-2011: Mitigations for the RSA Cyber Intrusion, and provides additional guidance and recommendations.

Source: Politic365.com

PBS Website Hacked: States Rapper Tupac Shakur is Alive

2011-06-02/0 Comments/in Hack, Web Security/by admin

Officials at PBS Television confirmed hackers broke into the organization’s website and posted the false story about the deceased rapper and removed it off their website Monday morning.

The Lulz Boat hacking group stated they were “less than impressed” after watching the network’s program “WikiSecrets” and “decided to sail our Lulz Boat over the PBS servers for further… perusing.”

Many Wikileaks supporters found the programming to be an unfair depiction of the organization and Bradley Manning. Manning is a military intelligence analyst, who is suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents that ended up on the WikiLeaks website. The disclosure of these document have been deemed one of the largest leaks of classified material in U.S. history.

In conjunction to the false story, the hackers also posted login information of PBS journalist, contractors, internal PBS websites and a number of internal communications such as letters and emails to a public website.

Anne Bentley, PBS’ vice-president of corporate communications, said in an email “all affected parties were being notified of the issue.”

These types of compromises occur too often due to technology, configuration or policy weaknesses at some of our major organizations. Last week it was the New York Times site, this week it is PBS, who is next… your organization?