[ISN] SecurID Breach Warning Signs In The Audit Logs

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:20:46 -0600 (CST)
http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/security-management/229400558/securid-breach-warning-signs-in-the-audit-logs.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Darkreading 
March 29, 2011

Most security experts caution RSA SecurID customers not to panic about 
the breach the security company revealed last week. But that doesn't 
mean they shouldn't plan for the worst-case scenario: The SANS Internet 
Storm Center has come up with a list of things to watch out for in audit 
logs -- just in case the bad guys got the keys to the kingdom, stole 
your token "seed" values, and were able to then acquire logins and PIN 
numbers for a full-blown breach of your two-factor authentication 
system.

SANS ISC handler Daniel Wesemann spelled out the specific audit log 
entries that could show up in your RSA ACE server for SecurID if there's 
trouble. But even if an attacker had grabbed seeds from an 
organization's SecurID tokens, he would still have to figure out the 
userID and PIN to log in, Wesemann said, so this is one of the 
worst-case scenarios. His post comes on the heels of fellow ISC handler 
Rob VandenBrink's, who explained in a post yesterday on the ISC SANS 
site just how bad it could be.

"Long story short, no matter how bad RSA's breach might or might not 
have been, System Administrators have it in their power to implement 
truly effective mitigations," VandenBrink wrote.

Here are some entries you hopefully won't find in your audit logs in the 
ACE server. But if you do, take heed:

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