RSA has finally admitted publicly that the March breach into its systems has resulted in the compromise of their SecurID two-factor authentication tokens.
The admission comes in the wake of cyber intrusions into the networks of three US military contractors: Lockheed Martin, L-3 Communications and Northrop Grumman - one of them confirmed by the company, others hinted at by internal warnings and an unusual domain name and password reset process.
RSA's Chairman Art Coviello has stated that the company is offering to virtually all of its customers to replace the SecurID tokens they are currently using or to provide security monitoring services. For financial institutions, RSA is offering to also provide transactions monitoring.
No additional details about what the RSA attackers did steal that allowed them to misuse the tokens, but it seems likely that both the seeds that link every token to a specific account and the algorithm that calculates the numeric sequence generated by the token have been compromised.
Security experts are dissatisfied with RSA's failure to reveal the exact nature of the stolen information, saying that it allowed the subsequent breaches and that it made its customers unaware of the real danger. Coviello defended the company's decision by saying that they didn't want to reveal to the hackers how to mount further attacks.
According to the WSJ, the investigation into the RSA attack has pointed out that the attackers might target defense contractors, but it's unclear if that happened before or after the attacks have already begun. RSA has apparently began working with the contractors in order to prevent intrusions but - at least for Lockheed Martin - the help was not timely.
After the breach, Lockheed Martin said that their systems remain secure, and that no customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised, but there are those who doubt it.
RSA is expected to replace practically every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently used.
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"Lockheed Martin said that their systems remain secure, and that no customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised"
That is quite possible. They might have used the RSA keys for network access, say a VPN connection, but not for actual access credentials for specific machines. So cracking the RSA keys might have allowed you to connect to the network, it might not allow you access to any of the hosts or data on that network.
[Arab News] Nigeria's anti-corruption agency nabbed the outgoing speaker of parliament on Sunday, one of the country's most powerful politicians, saying it feared he planned to flee abroad to avoid facing fraud allegations.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said its agents jugged former parliament speaker Dimeji Bankole at his residence in the capital Abuja after he tried to resist arrest for more than four hours.
Bankole had told the agency he would hand himself in on Monday for questioning over allegations that he misappropriated tens of millions of dollars of parliamentary funds. But the EFCC said it believed he had other plans.
"An intelligence report ... showed that the former speaker was planning to leave Abuja for Lagos on Sunday evening and thereafter flee the country through an illegal route," EFCC front man Femi Babafemi said in a statement.
President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... , who was sworn in for his first full term in office a week ago, has been criticized along with his predecessors for doing too little to tackle endemic corruption in Africa's most populous nation.
Jonathan first came to power last year when his predecessor, Umaru Yar'Adua, died in office.
The EFCC has nabbed senior political figures in the past, including powerful former state governors, but the cases have often failed to end in prosecutions.
Babafemi said Bankole was wanted for questioning over allegations including the misappropriation of 9 billion naira ($60 million), the diversion of funds in a 2.3 billion naira car-buying scheme, and taking a 10-billion naira personal bank loan using parliament's account as collateral.
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"14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau..."
Fred, you are a national treasure. :-D
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[Emirates 24/7] Soddy Arabia's feared Islamic police locked away 43 men during a concert at a rest house and authorities are considering taking special measures against them, according to local media reports.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice raided the rest house in the western town of Makkah and rounded up the 43 persons, who wore make-up on their faces, Alhayat Arabic language daily said.
"They were all referred to the prosecutor in Makkah for interrogation...special measures will be taken regarding their behavior and situation," the paper added without elaborating.
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nice 12th century mind set ya got there "morons of the House of Saud"
[Al Jazeera] Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid in New York.
The 62-year-old could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted on charges including attempted rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.
Wearing a dark suit,
"So distingue'! So charmant!"
Strauss-Kahn arrived at the courthouse with his wife, French television journalist Anne Sinclair.
"So charmant! So distingue'!"
The next date for the hearing is July 18.
Defence lawyers said on Monday that they believed forensic evidence wouldn't support a forcible encounter.
"We intend to defend this case and defend it vigorously but we are going to do so in the court room. Today Mr Strauss-Kahn entered a plea of not guilty, that's a very eloquent and powerful statement that he made that he denies these charges," Benjamin Brafman, Strauss-Kahn's lead lawyer, said.
No, actually it's a simple, concise, "Not guilty, your honour."
"Our judgement, once the evidence is reviewed, is that there is 'no element' of forcible compulsion in this case whatsoever. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply not credible," he said.
But Kenneth Thompson, the maid's lawyer, said the notion that the 32-year-old "hard-working single mother" had consensual sex with Strauss-Kahn was "preposterous".
"All of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's power, money and influence will not stop the truth of what he did to her in that hotel room from coming out," he said. "She is going to come into this courthouse, get into that witness stand and tell the world what (he) did to her."
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OTOH DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US GOLD RESERVES [Gold Depository = Fort Knox, KY] ARE EMPTY, VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS STRAUSS-KAHN [being] FRAMED, for finding out or knowing that the USA is de facto broke + can't pay its bills anymore to the IMF or anyone.
* ION RUSSIA > [Rian.Ru] WEST WILL HAVE 80,000 CRUISE MISSLES BY 2020.
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"VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS STRAUSS-KAHN [being] FRAMED, for finding out or knowing that the USA is de facto broke + can't pay its bills anymore to the IMF or anyone."
If someone is that "dangerous" you kill him, you don't send him a maid to rape. Jeez
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Not agreeing with Vlad or DSK, but I think an arguement can be made, in general, that a disgracing can be as or more effective than a disappearance. On the other side, in general, if a person feels they are an untouchable it sure opens the door that they can do anything they want. The US legal systems may have some faults but each will get their chance to plea their case publically.
From the News Agency That Shall Not Be Named:
The New Jersey Supreme Court says people posting in online message boards don't have the same protections for sources as mainstream journalists.
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New Jersey's highest court says online message boards are little more than forums for discussion and don't fit the definition of news media as described by the law.
It is difficult to get the gist of the implications from this brief article. I wonder what New Jersey's definition of news media is? Is the NYTs considered news media. What if their stories are extremely biased and occasionally made up? What about what Andrew Breitbart does? Or the National Enquirer? These last two sources often have the lowdown on the true story when no else reports it, e.g. the Edwards scandal.
Would New Jersey's definition of news media would pass muster at SCOTUS?
Bloggers very often get it right when no one else does. Is truth important in reporting or some arbitrary definition of news media? It would seem that at some point NJ would have to expand its definition of legitimate news media.
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The gist I got was that this was for forum posts. If I posted stuff on Rantburg about some steamy and possibly explosive stuff here and a reporter used it, that reporter is not allowed to keep me as an anonymous poster (or my IP)private in an investigation. Bloggers sometimes are different as they can act like a news organization by the definition of the law (see Pajamasmedia.com or Powerline.com).
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By definition then, IMO MSM-Net professional journalists = major News Organz must now remove themselves from posting Artics on the Net since + return to so-called "Dinosaur" PAPER/PRINTED MEDIA since their Artics are now as subjective + surreal + non-credible, etc. as those written or posted by non-professional Bloggers on online message boards???
Ditto rationale for ANTI-TERROR US DNI + OTHER INTEL vee PATRIOT ACT.
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Basically, it says that message board posters aren't journalists. Fair enough, since a track record could or could not be established (which is why it's a good idea to write original news articles once in a while to establish credibility).
The IMF praised the government's attempts to stabilise the economy since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.
The deal must still be approved by the IMF's board and Egypt's cabinet and military council.
Last week, the government approved its 2011-12 budget, which raised spending by a quarter. Much of the increased spending went on helping low-income households.
No way Egypt will be able to pay it back. What on earth are the IMF lordlings thinking!
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Six soldiers and a young girl were killed when the Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... military quashed a mutiny, the government announced Saturday.
Disgruntled soldiers have been looting and letting off gunfire in the economic capital for days as they demand higher wages.
On Friday President Blaise Compaore sent in a unit of his presidential guard, backed up by parachute commandos and police -- the first military intervention since unrest broke out among garrisons nationwide in March.
Six soldiers in the camp who put up resistance were killed during the operation in southwestern Bobo Dioulasso and a young girl was killed in the crossfire, security minister Jerome Bougouma told a presser on Saturday.
The minister said 25 civilians and eight soldiers were also injured but the mutiny was brought to a close.
The troops "have put an end to the schemes of the mutinous soldiers," Bougouma told news hounds.
"We have tossed in the clink more than 57 mutineers," he said. "A search operation is continuing with the help of the public to arrest those on the run."
"The government remains ready to negotiate, to talk," but in the case of new "excesses," order and discipline will be restored, he said.
The soldiers will now face prosecution, Justice Minister Jerome Traore said.
One of the operation commanders told AFP: "We are currently collecting weapons, ammunition and stolen items. This could take one to two weeks, because lots of things were taken."
Residents in Bobo Dioulasso reported a calm night on Friday. Members of the presidential guard remained in the city but people were being allowed to go about their business, one man said.
Until now the government has generally responded to soldier unrest by giving out bonuses.
Troops have made no political demands nor shown any intention of seeking to overthrow the regime, but authorities have also been faced with public protests over high food prices, unemployment and the looting of property by troops.
In a bid to quell unrest since February, Compaore has fired army and police chiefs and formed a new government, naming himself defence minister, while promising subsidies on basic commodities and other urgent measures.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Monday framed charges afresh against Arafat Rahman Koko, younger son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... for money laundering.
Fresh charges were pressed under Money Laundering Prevention Act 2002.
The same court on November 30 last year indicted Koko for money laundering under Money Laundering Prevention Act 2009. The fresh charges were framed to avoid legal complications as the events Koko has been charged for took place before 2009.
Ismail Hossain Saimon, son of former shipping minister later Akbar Hosain, was also indicted in the case.
Judge Mozammel Hossain of the Special Judge's Court-3 framed the charges following an application submitted by Special Public Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol.
Kajol mentioned in his petition that the Supreme Court in its February 9 verdict said charges of the money laundering case against BNP Senior Vice President Tarique Rahman and his business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun will run under Money Laundering Prevention Act 2002 as the crimes were committed before 2009.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case against Koko on March 17, 2009 saying that the accused had laundered money they received from China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd and Siemens for helping them win government contracts.
China Harbour got a Tk 351 crore contract to set up New Mooring Container Terminal and Siemens a Tk 239 crore contract to supply and install equipment for Teletalk, the state-owned cellphone operator.
The ACC pressed charges against Koko and Saimon on November 15, 2009.
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ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA: NO [PLAN] NAVAL BASE IN PAKISTAN OR SRI LANKA | NO NAVAL BUILDUP, SAYS CHINA'S DM. Gen. Liang Guanglie.
ARTIC > DM LIANG GUANGLIE = "CHINA is now pursuing Socialism", + does not yet have a large arsenal of THIRD-GENERATION WEAPONS like the US, CPLA'S MIL MODERNIZATION TO PAR WID CHINA'S ECON GROWTH/POWER.
* NEWS KERALA > NORTH KOREA TO SET UP [Yalu River region]ECONOMIC ZONE ON CHINA BORDER. Hwanggumphyeong + Wihwa islands.
versus
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > CHINA'S SUBMARINES ARE BIG[GEST] FAILURE EVER!?
ARTIC = China trusts its PLA armed forces, wid or widout the latest modern wares, even less than the Cold War USSR did wid their own, hence is highly reluctant to deploy them far beyond China's territorial limits.
IIUC, CHINA + PLA QUANDRY > PLA IS CRITICIZED AS LACKING EXPERTISE OR PROFICIENCY IN 21ST CENTURY MODERN COMBAT + TECHS - TO BECOME A TRUE GLOBAL SUPEROWER, THE PLA MUST BE ABLE TO RELIABLY + ROUTINELY DEFEND CHIN'S INTERESTS OVERSEAS VEE FORCE/POWER PROJECTION, BUT DUE TO LATENT MISTRUST OF THE PLA BEIJING IS ONLY WILLING TO DEV LR MILSTRIKE TECHS IN SUPPOR OF CHIN'S GEOPOL INTERESTS AS LONG AS IT CAN KEEP PLA FORCES HOME OR VERY CLOSE TO HOME.
IOW, Beijing wants the PLA to know how to fly before it first learns even how to walk or run - BEIJING'S BIGGEST BARRIER TO CHINA BECOM A US-STYLE = POST-US GLOBAL SUPERPOWER IS BEIJING + CHINA ITSELF.
Asking a Water Buffalo to push a larger-sized, long Train.
Ollanta Humala, a left-wing former army commander, has claimed victory in Peru's presidential poll, as partial official results show him holding a razor-thin lead.
With three quarters of the country's ballot boxes counted on Sunday, Humala (50.087 per cent) held a lead of about 20,600 votes over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jugged ex-president Alberto Fujimori.
The first official count represented a higher proportion of urban votes, which tend to favour Fujimori, election officials said.
Three survey firms earlier released exit polls and quick counts, all of which showed Humala winning the election.
Analysts say it is still too early to rule out a vote recount, as the election appears too close to accurately predict.
Humala's supporters, however, were already celebrating on Sunday evening. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud in downtown Lima, the Peruvian capital, and waved red and white flags while dancing in a crowd of about 5,000 people.
"The results have been given, the quick counts show us that we've successfully got here and we've won the elections in Peru," Humala shouted over a cheering crowd, many waving red and white Peruvian flags.
"Keiko is done," read one banner as an effigy of her burned. Fujimori's father, Alberto, was president through the 1990s, until his government collapsed under a cloud of corruption and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... scandals.
"Fujimori never again," read another banner.
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[Iran Press TV] Preliminary results in Macedonia's early general elections indicate that the ruling rightist government has won a third term over the country's main opposition.
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski claimed victory in Sunday's early elections against rival Social Democrats, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
"With pleasure, I can announce that the winner of these elections is VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition 'For a better Macedonia.' We have won 55 seats [of its 123 seats] in the Parliament," Gruevski announced at his party's headquarters.
Preliminary estimates posted on the official website of the country's electoral commission indicate that nearly 82 percent of polling stations favored the VMRO-DPMNE conservative party, with 39.31 percent of the vote count, over the opposition Social Democrats, which received 32.71 percent of the tally.
Final results are to be released on Monday.
"The majority of people have recognized that in Macedonia a change happened in 2006 when a group of young politicians came to power," the Macedonian premier said.
Gruevski added that his government's main concerns would remain to be focusing on improving the country's economy, agriculture, investments and corruption record, while preserving mutual relations between ethnic groups, and joining the EU and NATO.
The early general elections were held a year before the end of Gruevski's four-year term, following a walkout by the country's opposition from the legislation in January. The walkout was carried out in response to the arrest and imprisonment of a popular Television station boss and the freezing of his bank accounts.
According to the country's Election Commission Director Boris Kondarko, the voter turnout from 86 percent of Macedonian polling stations was 63.30 percent. Macedonia has about 1.8 million eligible voters.
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[An Nahar] The German cabinet signed off Monday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe's biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan's Fukushima plant.
"I am convinced that the government's decision today represents a milestone in the economic and social development of our country," Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen told news hounds in Berlin.
The pace of the switch-off is faster than that announced last week by Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , with the nine reactors currently on line due to be turned off between 2015 and 2022, according to the text of the bill.
Previously Merkel had said that six reactors would shut down in 2021 and the three most modern in 2022. The seven oldest reactors were already shut down following the Fukushima crisis.
A further reactor has been shut for years because of technical problems.
The decision represents a humbling U-turn for Merkel, who in late 2010 took the unpopular decision to extend the lifetime of Germany's 17 reactors by an average of 12 years, keeping them open until the mid-2030s.
The bill focuses on ways to fill the gap left by nuclear power, on which Germany relies for some 22 percent of its energy needs.
This includes building new coal and gas power plants, expanding the production of electricity with renewable sources like solar and wind power, reducing Germany's energy use and improving transmission networks.
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As said before, IMO GERMANY > will import energy from RUSSIA + FRANCE, espec Russia. I'm not convinced Germany = Berlin will wholly eliminate its Nucprogs - I'm interpreting this Artic as more evidencia that Germany wants to be the lead in dev "UNIVERSAL", GEORGE JETSON-IAN STYLE HOUSEHOLD, TRANSPORTATION NUCPOWER TECHS FOR "CHEAP" MASS CONSUMPTION [Retail].
[Nuclear KMART + DHL, FEDEX, etc. Global-Space LLCS use SPACELY'S SPACE SPROCKETS here].
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That's California's energy policy, import it from its neighbors. Then during brownouts they whine, throw money at it, drive up other people's costs, then sue after its all over believing they've been price gouged.
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Speaking of prices, Germany has one of the highest prices of electricity of any country (about 30 cents per kwh). This is partly because they have installed a lot of solar and wind stations.
Businesses that use a lot electricity are going elsewhere. In addition, there German population is shrinking.
Thus they need power less than other countries.
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Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows.
While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will definitely or probably stop offering employer-sponsored coverage, according to the study published in McKinsey Quarterly.
The survey of 1,300 employers says those who are keenly aware of the health-reform measure probably are more likely to consider an alternative to employer-sponsored plans, with 50% to 60% in this group expected to make a change. It also found that for some, it makes more sense to switch.
The Affordable Care Act: so affordable it will blow a giant hole in the private insurance industry. But not by accident.
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I believe you are correct, Elarson. The Health Care Insurance providers have to adhere to Federal Standards so an individual policy is un-lawful.
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I seem to recall a provision of ObamaCare that made it impossible for insurance companies to write individual policies. Am I remembering correctly?
Not sure where you got that from as it sounds like your saying if I have an individual policy covering myself that the insurance companies can no longer do that?
The Supreme Court ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia to reconsider Hazletons law, which was struck down in 2008.
Its a do-over in the Third Circuit, Kris Kobach, the attorney for Hazleton, said. We re-brief it, re-argue it and have a helpful Supreme Court decision in our hip pocket.
Kobach referred to a decision on May 26 in a case about an Arizona law. In the Arizona case, the Supreme Court upheld a law revoking the business licenses for companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
Hazletons law contains nearly the same employment provisions. The Arizona decision, Kobach said, put Hazleton on very strong ground for the employment provision.
Jordan is expected to buy 10 million cubic meters of additional water from Israel's Lake Kinneret supply this summer due to water shortages in the Jordan Valley, Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm reported an unidentified Jordanian Water Ministry official as saying in a story on Monday.
Amman secretly purchased 2 million cubic meters late last summer, the paper also reported.
I'm trying to decide whether it would be better to spike the water with valium, haldol or estrogen...
Jordan remains the fourth poorest country in the world in terms of water availability, according to the author, who refused to speak to The Jerusalem Post.
Remember all the predictions of water wars in the region?
Israel already provides Jordan with 25 million cubic meters of water from the Kinneret each summer, and Jordan is able to pump an additional 10 million as per the 1994 Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement.
The Israel Water Authority had no comment on the alleged deal.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Goodluck Jonathan
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has 
Khaleda Zia,
What was all that about If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage? Oh yeah, it was what normal people call a lie.
