Siemens has patched a number of security holes in its SIMATIC supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, according to the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).

European Union (EU) regulators have a reached an “understanding” with Google over concerns about anti-competitive behavior on the part of the search engine giant.

The free open-source web application firewall known as ModSecurity – once just an Apache plug-in – now also plugs directly into IIS and Nginx web servers, and is particularly good for virtual patching.

Earlier in May it was found that Citadel was delivering the Reveton ransomware. Now Trusteer has discovered it delivering a children’s charity scam to Facebook users.

Mac security firm Intego was the first to sound the alarm yesterday, calling the newly discovered trojan Backdoor:OSX/Crisis. Today Sophos issues its own warning about OSX/Morcut.A – which seems to be the same malware.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning that unauthorized charges on wireless phone bills, known as “cramming”, are becoming an increasingly serious problem for US consumers.

A physician’s unencrypted personal laptop that may have contained protected health information on 3,900 patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center was stolen, the hospital admitted Monday.

The latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries report from Sophos shows that Asia in general, and India in particular, is now responsible for the greatest volume of the world’s spam.

The social sharing site Pinterest has begun temporarily locking down accounts in an effort to combat an increase in suspected hacking on the site.

The Japanese Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had discovered 123 desktop computers that had been infected with a remote access trojan between January 2010 and November 2011.