In early February an overhead light fixture fell in one of the Boston "Big Dig" tunnels but it was more than a month before the public who drives through the tunnel was told. On March 15, a system at company Comodo was used to create fake security certificates for a number of major U.S. companies, but .
And, at some, so far unknown point, RSA, the folks that bring you the SecureID tokens used by thousands of companies to protect their electronic assets, .
As of this writing, RSA has still not said just what happened.
RSA'S SECUREID SECURITY BREACH:
The decision to not tell the public about the Big Dig lighting problem has already cost one highway administrator his job and has become a daily reminder of the expensive mess that was the whole Big Dig project.