security Networks U.S. military contractors hacked

WASHINGTON-security Networks Lockheed Martin Corp. and several other U.S. military contractors entered into by hackers.


"They break into security systems designed to prevent intruders by creating a duplicate electronic key" SecurID "RSA security division of EMC Corp.," the source told Reuters.


Not yet known if any type of data being stolen by hackers. However, networks of military contractors Lockheed and others contain sensitive data future weapon systems and military technology that is currently used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Manufacturers of arms is the latest company to enter through a sophisticated attack
which has penetrated the defense companies, including Sony, Google Inc., and EMC Corp.

Security experts say is almost impossible for companies or government agencies
to build a security network that is impenetrable to hackers.

The Pentagon, which has about 85 thousand military personnel and civilians
working on cyber security issues worldwide, said they also use a limited number of electronic security key RSA, but declined to say how many for security reasons.

According to these sources, the hackers learn how to copy a security key with the
RSA data stolen from sophisticated attacks uncovered during EMC in March. As did executives at other large military contractors, EMC also refused to comment on this issue.

Rick Moy, President of NSS Labs, an information security firm, said the attack on RSA is likely to be targeted at customers, including military organizations, finance, government, and others with critical intellectual property.

He said the attack early RSA followed by malware and phishing campaigns looking for specific data that will link the object to end users, which means an attack at this moment has been done by the same hacker.