SecurID Breach Suggested in Hacking Attempt at Lockheed - NYTimes.com

A potentially ominous development for RSA (and its SecurID customers)

Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest military contractor, has battled disruptions in its computer networks this week that might be tied to a hacking attack on a vendor that supplies coded security tokens to millions of users, security officials said on Friday.

The SecurID electronic tokens, which are used to gain access to computer networks by corporate employees and government officials from outside their offices, are supplied by the RSA Security division of the EMC Corporation.

SecurID Breach Suggested in Hacking Attempt at Lockheed - NYTimes.com