The sophisticated, multi-pronged attack that struck RSA Security last March has resulted in the high-profile IT security vendor overhauling the manufacturing and distribution of its SecurID tokens.
For readers who may have overlooked the saga, the attack compromised RSA Security's network of about 40 million tokens and involved the use of stolen SecurID information to launch an attack on a key RSA Security customer, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. defense contractor, in the early spring of last year.
Whilst RSA officials have sought to minimise the fallout from the security faux pas – pointing to the fact that it has staged a free re-issue of SecurID tokens to all its many customers – critics point out that it took the security vendor a week before it started talking to the press, and by implication, its customers about the problem.
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