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RSA SecurID Information Breached

In a disclosure made by RSA today, they indicated that they have been breached by an "extremely sophisticated cyber attack" which has partially compromised the SecurID information which millions of clients use to provide strong authentication to services. It is not yet clear what information was breached or what the impact will be to RSA customers, but for now I would suggest that people stay tuned to ensure that they take appropriate action based on what RSA and others release. Update 1 - Found the recommendations made by RSA to customers regarding how to better protect their environments. I have added my comments on what these recommendations could mean to RSA. • We recommend customers increase their focus on security for social media applications and the use of those applications and websites by anyone with access to their critical networks. This could mean that part of the RSA breach was associated with a social media application attack vector - maybe employees reusing