Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest defense contractors, is also known for the great fighter plane F -16 producer was hit hard by hackers this week who used falsified SecurID electronic tokens to gain access in their system. The breach threatens the security of the secret data and information on present and future military with them.
It is not clear till now that anything was stolen during the breach. It isn't even clear what the hackers want, but the attacks are being traced back to an hacking campaign back in March on the RSA Security arm of the EMC Corporation, which is an important information storage firm in the country. The attack compromised the security of anyone using the RSA technology—which means most Fortune 500 companies, other military contractors, and even the Pentagon is operation over this technology
Most of these companies have since taken strong action to deal with the security issues associated with them, but as Rick Moy, president of NSS Labs, told Reuters, "Given the military targets, and that millions of compromised keys are in circulation, this is not over."
Lockheed looks quite confident that their broader security systems are in place and they have served to prevent or at least soften the blow from this breach. RSA, however, is at a different condition as facing critics because of this slag.
The RSA breach did raise concerns about any security tokens that had been compromised, and EMC now faced tough questions about whether "they can repair that product line or whether they need to ditch it and start over again," he said
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