Lockheed Martin hit by cyber incident, U.S. says

Source: Reuters

Lockheed Martin Corp, the world's biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident, the government said on Saturday.

The Department of Homeland Security said it and the Defense Department had offered to help gauge the scope of a "cyber incident impacting LMCO," as the maker of fighter jets, ships and other major weapons systems is known.

The U.S. government also has offered to help analyze "available data in order to provide recommendations to mitigate further risk," Chris Ortman, a Homeland Security official, said in an e-mailed reply to a query from Reuters.

It was not immediately clear what kind of data, if any, was stolen by the hackers. But military contractors' networks contain sensitive data on arms that are under development as well as technology used by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/29/us-usa-defense-hackers-idUSTRE74Q6VY20110529

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FLASH: Lockheed Martin confirms it detected and warded off a "significant and tenacious" attack on its information systems network on May 21
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The brave cyber defenders warded off a sustained attack, about which we can't tell you anything, but give generously of your taxes to the Cyber Command and let's pick a target to bomb/arrest/demonize for this!!!

Something was or is going to come back.

What goes around comes around.

having worked with the federal government and their suppliers, the thing that rarely (if ever) is mentioned that really sensitive networks are highly isolated. they are never connected to the internet, so much so that folks will have 2 PCs on their desks. one for the "regular" network and connected to the internet and the other not.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/dod-private-contractors-potentially-vulnerable-rsa-cyber-attack/story?id=13162204

In addition to the U.S. government, according to its website, RSA SecurID customers include major American corporations, healthcare institutions and charities, as well as banks and institutions that cater to high net worth individuals, like Rolls Royce and Bentley Motors. The state of Kansas is also listed as a SecureID customer. Other RSA clients include the FBI, Northrop Grumman and German government.

"This is a very major security compromise that has possibly put at risk numerous sensitive government sites and private industry as well" said former U.S. National Security Advisor Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Coviello said that that while some information relating to RSA's token authentication system had been "extracted" by the intruders, RSA is "confident that the information extracted does not enable a successful direct attack on any of our RSA SecurID customers."