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Months after a phishing attack struck RSA Security's passcode-generating tokens and thus exposed the nation's leading banks to security threats this spring, more than a third of top banks are standing by RSA's product.
November 1
Part of the reason RSA Security fell victim to a security breach this year is that it was using an older version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, according to a security researcher.
The researcher concluded that RSA, a unit of EMC Corp., used Windows XP because that version of Windows did not automatically switch on a security technology called data execution prevention, Computerworld
It is possible that the bug could be modified for later versions of Windows, but the researcher, Rodrigo Branco of Qualys, ruled that out, the article said.
RSA disclosed in March that it had been struck by an attack that affected its security technology, which many banks use to protect internal systems and high-value accounts.