Cyber Security And Espionage

The article linked below tells the sketchy story about how Lockheed Martin's computer system was hacked last week by cyber spies. The details are incomplete and one may even suspect the tone of the article is intentionally misleading, after all its a company with close links to the Pentagon. We will not know what occurred.

One thing to keep in mind here. If a company like Lockheed Martin is being hacked, how safe are we with all our online information and such. Let me offer a guess, not very safe at all.

CS Monitor: How bad was the cyber attack on Lockheed Martin?

Lockheed Martin – one of the world’s biggest military and aerospace companies and the Pentagon's top supplier – came under a “significant and tenacious” cyber attack last week...


...with the intent to market whatever information can be extracted internationally to other governments...


Hackers may have gained access to Lockheed Martin’s system using a special password generation key produced by EMC Corp.'s RSA security division...