Security

Black Hat and Defcon to focus on critical infrastructure

Hacker conferences Black Hat and Defcon will cover threats to industrial systems, transportation, and the electrical grid

Siemens confirms German customer hit by Stuxnet espionage worm

Security vendor Symantec is now logging about 9,000 infection attempts per day

Adobe to beef up PDF security with Reader ‘sandboxing’

Later this year Adobe will isolate processes in Reader 10 to block malware execution

Second variant of Stuxnet worm strikes

Security researchers at Eset say the dangerous new Windows malware targeting Siemens SCADA systems also uses other security certificates

Siemens warns users: Don’t change passwords after worm attack

The worm uses a default password that, if changed, could crash Siemens' large-scale industrial automation systems

Generating Passwords in Java using the obix commons library

Watch out for this nasty zero-day exploit

Windows' dumb way of handling certain shortcut icons opens door to new rootkit exploit that can nail fully patched systems

Free Dell Web browser tool protects desktop from malware

Secure Browser works by creating a protective 'sandbox' on the desktop to isolate the user from harmful code

New ‘weaponized’ virus targets industrial secrets

Security experts say the malicious software is designed to infiltrate the systems used to run factories and parts of the critical infrastructure

Mozilla raises bounty for security bugs to $3,000

The reward for finding eligible security vulnerabilities will increase from $500, and the program extended to cover more Mozilla software