Robert McMillan

A gang made US$25,000 in a month from victims who had to send text messages to unlock their PCs. A Kaspersky expert says the miscreants are paying others to spread the malware through blogs and botnets

A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco Systems Inc.

Stuxnet, which targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems made by Siemens AG, was created as early as June, 2009, according to Symantec Corp. researchers. Some claim the malware creators stole encryption keys made by Realtek Semiconductor Corp. and JMicron Technology Corp.

The Stuxnet worm affecting supervisory control and data acquisition systems made by Siemens AG may have been spreading since as early as January. Symantec Corp. says most systems affected by the worm are in Iran

German manufacturer Siemens AG warned users that removing the Stuxnet worm discovered last week could affect industrial operations. The malicious software is written for supervisory control and data acquisition systems.

The A5/1 Security Project has finished developing software that could be used to listen in on cellular phone conversations over the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks. The project leader plans to discuss this at the Black Hat security conference

Although a newly discovered worm could allow criminals to break into Siemens AGs industrial automation systems using a default password, Siemens is telling customers to leave their passwords...

In a reversal of course, Google now says that it will give European regulators data it secretly collected from open wireless networks over the past three years