This post is an excerpt from RSA Breach: An Attack That Used a Social Media Booby Trap?.
RSA had a major breach this week. Attackers stole information for 40 million two-factor authentication accounts.
That's a huge breach. And the ones affected most may be IT administrators, who in turn, run the security for countless enterprise and cloud-based services in the public and private sector. The ramifications are considerable. This attack means that hundreds if not millions of people could be affected if IT administrator accounts now get hacked.
RSA is the security division of EMC Corporation. RSA is revealing little about the attack but the news does shine light on what has to be the greatest security hole the world has ever seen.
And that's social media. People are very susceptible to these types of attacks when using services that allow them to share information.
