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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho Danchev

Adobe confirms 'sophisticated, coordinated' breach

By | January 12, 2010, 5:17pm PST

Summary: In an attack described as “sophisticated” and “coordinated,” Adobe said its corporate network systems were breached by hackers.

In an attack described as “sophisticated” and “coordinated,” Adobe said its corporate network systems were breached by hackers.

The company said the attack also affected other unnamed companies.  Adobe did not provide any other details except to say it was aware of the breach on January 2, 2010.

Here’s the brief statement from Adobe:

Adobe became aware on January 2, 2010 of a computer security incident involving a sophisticated, coordinated attack against corporate network systems managed by Adobe and other companies. We are currently in contact with other companies and are investigating the incident. At this time, we have no evidence to indicate that any sensitive information — including customer, financial, employee or any other sensitive data — has been compromised. We anticipate the full investigation will take quite some time to complete. We have and will continue to use information gained from this attack to make infrastructure improvements to enhance security for Adobe, our customers and our partners.

It is not yet clear if this incident is related to the Google breach that is being blamed on China.

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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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RE: Adobe confirms 'sophisticated, coordinated' breach
lovedong 13th Sep
This is STUNNING, thank you so much for sharing! happy replica watches
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Windows happy
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I hope this is sarcasm
Cylon Centurion 12th Jan 2010
It's not like Linux or Mac can't be hacked too.
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True, but...
eMJayy 12th Jan 2010
Windows has never failed to be the most reliable
target.

New decade, same old Windows intrusion headlines.
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HAHAAH Nice FUD
Johnny Vegas 12th Jan 2010
Most profitable yes, but not most reliably vulnerable.
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Botnets are Microsoft's invention.
CapitalismAteItself 13th Jan 2010
Slap it together, hype it up, force it upon the users ....
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Not true
jackr1909 21st Apr 2010
The core of Unix systems like make cannot be
breached. Linux cannot but its 'Gnome' Graphical
User Interface can.
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I thought you were going to suggest that some of their Flash wasn't up-to-date wink.
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Or PDF Reader
lehnerus2000 13th Jan 2010
nt

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Best Wishes John
dev-null 13th Jan 2010
I hope your upcoming 12th birthday is a happy one.
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Adobe runs Solaris
rberman 13th Jan 2010
Amusing that the hormone-challenged bashers shut up when it's a pet OS.

They're all hackable. All.
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Ummm.... Pet OS?
awasson@... 13th Jan 2010
It's not Linux... Solaris is UNIX. It's probably the most hardened networked OS
you'll find. Perhaps you could give some thought before responding?
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thanks for the facts
mckinleydesign 13th Jan 2010
Glad to see there still a few who are interested in facts and take the time to investigate before they open their mouth. Thanks for adding something constructive. I'm getting sick and tired of these auto-proclaimed computer wizards who turn every computer related comment into an OS jab. A bunch of mindless goonies: incapable of examining their own little utopia realistically.
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What facts?
Wintel BSOD 13th Jan 2010
The article didn't say anything about what kind of an attack it was or what companies were affected. It essentially didn't tell us much of anything.
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I don't know about that.
anothercanuck 13th Jan 2010
According to Netcraft, Microsoft runs Redhat Linux:
http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?restriction=site+contains&host=micosoft.com&lookup=wait..&position=limited

I looked up a website I control and Netcraft's info is 5 years out of date.
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Your link doesn't work!
ulrichburke@... 13th Jan 2010
Dear Sir.

I clicked on the link in your 'I don't know about that' reply in the 'According to Netcraft, Microsoft runs Redhat Linux' thread and it comes up with an empty page with an (obviously fake) site called MiCOsoft (spot the missing R!) listed on it. When you click on that link, it comes up 'The Page cannot be displayed'. So check your link and see what you're linked to!

Yours respectfully

ulrichburke
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You're right...
KTLA 17th Jan 2010
You don't know about that, or anything else. All you know is what OS "micosoft.com" runs.

I would say "nice try" if it had been one.
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Solaris?
jackr1909 21st Apr 2010
I don't think so. Just about every developer runs
Linux. Who could develop sophisticated programs
with windows?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1589735,00.html

Your goverment at work... Sandia (a national lab funded by the gov't with a budget of over $2B) tried to coverup the fact that their comptuers (containing data on the design of our nuclear weapons systems) were broken into by the Chinese governement. They fired an employee, Shawn Carpenter, who found the break in and after his superiors told him to ignore it, contacted the FBI about the breakin. Carpenter ended up getting a bit over $4M after a court trial, Sandia Management at the other hand got an "Excellent" rating by the goverment as to their performance.
Heh - hijack?

But seriously, thank goodness the new administration has finally made our government's operations transparent and honest, cuz... oh wait. They went the other way. sad
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wrong administration
72392 13th Jan 2010
Just to be clear, the Sandia thing took place 2003 through 2007 -- Bush years.
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Hijack much, yourself?
lelandhendrix@... 14th Jan 2010
Nice try at taking something at least semi-related to the topic, and then hijack it
over to Fox And Friends.

At least his post was tech related and not an effort to politicize and polarize.

(Knee) jerk.
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Gee, aren't all breaches that companies are willing to admit to "sophisticated"? I wouldn't admit to anything less wink Seriously, I hope we all can learn (more) from this.
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