SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO--The attack that resulted in the compromise of RSA's SecurID database in 2011 had a lot of ramifications and sent shockwaves through much of the security industry. But it could have had much broader consequences had the security team at Lockheed Martin not discovered the same attack team on its own network and taken actions to shut them down.
Some of the details of the RSA attack are well known, as the company disclosed some of the tactics that the attackers used, as well as the tools they deployed on the company's network. After the attack became public, speculation started that the attackers were not actually that interested in RSA as a target, but were more keen on compromising some of the company's high-profile customers, namely defense contractors.
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