TWO GROUPS operating on behalf of a single nation state were responsible for RSA

October 17, 2011

“There were two individual groups from one nation state, one supporting the other. One was very visible and one less so,” said RSA executive chairman Art Coviello.

“We’ve not attributed it to a particular nation state although we’re very confident that with the skill, sophistication and resources involved it could only have been a nation state.”

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2116592/executed-rsa-security-attack

 


Japan Defense industry body target of cyber-attack

October 17, 2011

A cyber-attack was launched on an organization of defense contractors in an attempt to steal confidential information on the nation’s defense industry, according to sources.

A hacker stole e-mail addresses from the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC), which lists executives of defense contractors as its directors, and then retrieved the contents of e-mails from Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., the sources said.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111015002242.htm