RSA Hack Was Done With 0-Day Flash Bug Embedded in XLS

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Avivah Litan, a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research, revealed in a blog entry today that the recent hack of RSA's SecurID system was performed via the recently-revealed 0-Day bug in Adobe's Flash. As Adobe stated at the time, the attack was performed by means of a Flash object embedded in an Excel (.XLS) file.


http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/04/rsa_hack_was_done_with_0-day_f.php
 
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