RSA hack exploited Flash vulnerability

Stuart Sumner
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Phishing email led to a serious case of "digital shoulder surfing"

The recent embarrassing data breach at security firm RSA was caused by a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash. RSA revealed that the attackers sent a phishing email to several groups of employe...

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