Re: [Fed-Talk] Malware targeting ActivIdentity smart cards
Re: [Fed-Talk] Malware targeting ActivIdentity smart cards
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Malware targeting ActivIdentity smart cards
- From: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:53:27 -0600
I don't see the Actividentity software or any third party middleware would be a vulnerability. Just plain old Windows 7 has this vulnerability, and so does the Mac. Any computer that can have a keylogger will have this vulnerability.
Once malware is present, you don't have a trusted computing base anymore (you probably never did).
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:11 PM, David Emery wrote:
> Independent of the problems Windows has with vulnerabilities, this highlights the problems in depending on a 3rd-party add-on as an element of what should be your Trusted Computing Base!
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>>> With ActivIdentity as the target, the attacks are clearly aimed at U.S. defense departments, the Times added. But it's as yet unknown what information the hackers have so far been able to capture.
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