Blog Posts Tagged with "Lockheed"
Symantec: Chinese Connection to Attacks on Defense Contractors
January 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The data Symantec published reinforces evidence from an earlier investigation conducted by AlienVault, which described an orchestrated sprear-phishing campaign most likely targeting information on US drone technology which utilized malware-infected PDF documents to deliver the Sykipot payload...
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The RQ170 Affair: Spoofing, Jamming, and The GBAS
December 19, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
The documents show a program to “augment” the GPS environment in Iran by placing base stations with the Fajr GPS (GBAS) network/hardware in specific sites throughout the country to ostensibly help with aircraft navigation. In their presentation, they mention the possibility of spoofing...
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Lockheed Warns Adobe of New Exploit in the Wild
December 07, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"This U3D memory corruption vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows..."
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US Drone Probably Experienced Mechanical Failure
December 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“U.S. and NATO officials wouldn’t say what kind of American drone had disappeared, but U.S. officials said there was no indication that the aircraft had been shot down by the Iranians. One American official said the drone likely suffered from a mechanical failure..."
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Was Iran's Downing of RQ-170 Related to the Malware Infection at Creech AFB?
December 04, 2011 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Iran took over the controls of a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone and landed it with minimal damage. As of this writing, the U.S. Air Force hasn't yet confirmed or denied the attack. I've left a message with the on-call PA officer at Creech Air Force Base...
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IMF May Be Latest Victim of RSA SecurID Hack
June 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"There are still dozens of similar yet still undisclosed breaches that have taken place in the U.S. government and defense domain during the same time frame. My guess is that it is the same set of bad actors who are behind the attacks focused on military, government and economic intelligence...
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To Disclose or NOT to Disclose...
June 09, 2011 Added by:Andrew Baker
The issue of disclosure is a sensitive one, and it is important not to feed more bad guys with more information that will allow them to have greater success, but it is abundantly clear that two months of saying essentially nothing is at least just as bad as saying too much, if not worse...
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How Secure is RSA’s SecurID?
June 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Once installed on the authentication server, most of the cryptographic protection of the seed values could be removed by anyone with sufficient time and effort, and in fact the previous secret 64-bit algorithm was revealed about 10 years ago through such reverse engineering...
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China Linked to RSA and Defense Contractor Breaches
June 07, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"If it's any kind of military espionage, military adversaries are going to be high on the list. The question then is who in China--is it government agents or independent contractors selling to the Chinese government?" asked Veracode's Chris Wysopal...
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RSA Tokens, Lockheed Martin, APT, OH MY!
June 03, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
I can hear certain people in the community now groaning at the use of the APT acronym but let me put it to you all straight. If there was a hack on LMCO, maker of the JSF and numerous black type projects to boot, then it was likely China or another nation state’s actors...
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RSA SecurID Breach Spreads to L3 and Northrop
June 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We're seeing are targeted attacks against the defense industry. The RSA attack was very sophisticated, probably executed by people who had plans for what to do with the keys. Think about the data that those companies have. They have our nation's military technology secrets..."
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Lockheed Systems on Lock Down After Cyber Attack
June 01, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure. No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised...”
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RSA's SecurID Hack Leads to Lockheed Network Disruption
May 27, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Whoever hacked the RSA network got the algorithm for the current tokens and then managed to get a key-logger installed on one or more computers used to access the intranet at this company. With those two pieces of information they were then able to get access to the internal network..."
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
- I Hope Edo is Worth the Privacy Risk
- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
- NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
- How Does Your Bank Protect Your Data?