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• RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining

  Last year's industry-shaking RSA Security breach has resulted in customers' CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the head of RSA.

• Q&A: RSA's Art Coviello reflects on last year's big data breach

  RSA Security Chairman Art Coviello says customers still want to hear details about how the company so quickly detected the data breach that last year compromised its SecurID tokens.

• RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher

  The attack that hacked RSA Security's network earlier this year succeeded because the company failed to take a basic security precaution, a researcher said Monday.

• Think about future threats, not present vulnerabilities: Eddie Schwartz

  Security threats are changing so fast that drawing up vulnerability reports is a "worthless endeavour", according to RSA US chief information security officer, Eddie Schwartz.

• Australian companies caught up in RSA SecurID token attack

  The aftermath of the RSA SecurID token attack which occurred in March and led to the replacement of thousands of tokens, has continued with the revelation that customers of Australian Internet service providers (ISPs), including Telstra and iiNet, may have been compromised.

• US lawmakers point to China as cause of cyberattacks

  U.S. government officials need to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a "pervasive" cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. companies, one U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.

• RSA spearphish attack may have hit US defense organizations

  The hackers who broke into EMC's RSA Security division last March used the same attack code to try to break into several other companies, including two U.S. national security organizations, according to data provided by the VirusTotal website.

• RSA still replacing tokens in Australian market

  RSA has admitted it is still a few months away from replacing all of its customers' SecureID tokens in the Australian market. The company also says that the March 2011 attack was by a nation state.

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  Cyberwarfare unfreezing a new Cold War warns McAfee CSO

  The Cold War between the USA and Russia may have ended two decades ago but a new frosty conflict between America and China together with North Korea has emerged on the digital frontier, according to McAfee’s US chief security officer.

• Is it time for RSA to open up about SecurID hack?

  For any company that makes its living selling security, it's a nightmare come true. This week, RSA Security admitted that hackers who broke into its network three months ago had stolen information about its SecurID tokens and then used that information to attack a customer, Lockheed Martin.

• Westpac, ANZ staff and customers to get new RSA security tokens

  Westpac and ANZ have confirmed they are initiating a token replacement program as a result of the recent RSA security token hack.

• Few cyberattacks are cause for major retaliation: Experts

  Cyberattacks on U.S. networks by other nations may not always demand the same level of retaliation, and only attacks that cause major damage or loss of life should prompt similar responses, a group of national security experts said Wednesday.

• After hack, RSA offers to replace SecureID tokens

  In an acknowledgement of the severity of its recent computer compromise, RSA Security said Monday that it will replace SecureID tokens for any customer that asks.

• Watch out for Adobe phishing scams

  There are phishing scams out there targeting Adobe users. Make sure you know how to recognize and avoid these threats when they arrive in your Inbox.

• Expect targeted attacks after massive Epsilon email breach, say experts

  Security experts today warned users to be on the watch for targeted email attacks after a breach at a major marketing firm that may have put millions of addresses in the hands of hackers and scammers.