“RSA Security has suffered the embarrassment of having their
home page ‘owned’ by an intruder who replaced it with a plain white
page bearing a simple message.”
“The hack follows closely on the heels of RSA’s boastful
announcement last week that it was developing some new magic bullet
to thwart DDoS attacks. The idea behind it is clever, we must
allow: a cryptographic technique using so-called ‘client puzzles’
which would accompany connection requests.”
“Of course the selection of RSA’s home page for a graffiti
attack could be a mere coincidence, or it could be a reply from the
hacking underground meant to remind the company, and the rest of us
by extension, that, all boasting aside, if you are connected to the
Internet, you can be hacked, one way or another.”