EMC Division against hackers hacked-abc27

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-the largest manufacturer in the world of computers, data storage, said Thursday that its Security Division has been hacked and that aliens vulnerable to widely used technology for the prevention of the computer break-in.

Infringement is embarrassed, EMC Corp., also Prime Minister, security vendor and potentially threatens highly sensitive computer systems.

The Incident is a rare public acknowledgement of the security company that was hacked its internal technology against hackers. It's particularly disturbing, because the company sold technology Security Division of EMC, RSA, plays an important role in the sure unauthorized persons are not allowed to log on to the heavily guarded networks.

The scope of the attack was not known immediately, but the potential impact could be widespread. RSA's customers include military governments, banks and health care facilities and health insurance outfits. EMC, Hopkinton, Massachusetts is founded, in itself is an RSA customer.

EMC said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, RSA has been the victim of what is known as "Advanced persistent threat," jargon into sophisticated computer attack. The term is often associated with corporate espionage, national attacks or high cybercriminal gangs.

EMC offer clues about the origin of the suspected attack. He says he recently discovered a "highly sophisticated" attack in the course of its networks and discovered analyticky that confidential information about RSA SecurID products. The technology supports the ubiquitous original RSA keys "hardware" and the other products this important computer networks with an additional layer of protection.

Products more difficult for someone to break into your computer and in the event that your password is stolen, for example. RSA, work equipment in conformity with the back-end software, generates additional password, which should know only the holder of the device. But if a criminal can figure out how they are generated by the additional password, the system is at risk.

RSA is one of the best-known names for this type of technology ", two-factor authentication".

RSA refused to comment on the type, or how much information was stolen.

Richard Stiennon, security analyst at IT-harvest, he said that the "great consequences" of the criminals were able to silently connect critical systems using information stolen.

"Never would have been a sign that you have violated," he said.

In his submission to the SEC, RSA said it "believes that the information extracted is not successfully a direct attack on one of our customers, RSA SecurID." However, he warned that "this information serve to reduce the effectiveness of the existing implementations of two-factor authentication as part of a wider attack."

"We have no evidence that the safety of the customer relating to other products like RSA influence," said the Executive President of the society, Art Coviello. "We also believe that no other EMC products was influenced by this attack. It is important to note that we don't believe that a customer or employee is personally identifiable information has been compromised as a result of this incident. "

The company said it provides "immediate remediation steps" for customers. It didn't say what it is. It outlined the safety tips that offer clues about how their customers could focus with information stolen from the RSA, for example, to carefully monitor the use of social networking sites, people with access to networks, the critical and the need to educate employees on dangers of clicking on links or attachments in suspicious emails.

EMC said it expected that the breach to have a meaningful impact on its financial results.

Its shares slipped 8 cents to $ 25.58 in extended trading on Thursday. They ended the regular session of 25 cents to $ 25.56.

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