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• Siemens looking to unload share in networking venture with Nokia, report said

  Siemens has started talks with private-equity firms about the sale of its share in Nokia Siemens Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

• Open-source video recorder adds full HD support

  If you're an enthusiastic home PC builder and a fan of Star Trek - and, to be fair, if you're the first, you're probably the second as well - it's an exciting day, as developer Klaus Schmidinger has released a new version of his open-source video disk recorder software.

• Stuxnet was attacking Iran's nuke program a year earlier than thought

  The Stuxnet worm was at work sabotaging a uranium plant in Iran a year earlier than previously thought and before a U.S. covert program to disrupt the facility was officially authorized by former President George W. Bush, according to a report on a previously unknown version of the worm.

• Avaya virtualizes UC Aura platform

  Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized.

• Security firm showcases vulnerabilities in SCADA software, won't report them to vendors

  Malta-based security start-up firm ReVuln claims to be sitting on a stockpile of vulnerabilities in industrial control software, but prefers to sell the information to governments and other paying customers instead of disclosing it to the affected software vendors.

• Siemens industrial software targeted by Stuxnet is still full of holes

  Software made by Siemens and targeted by the Stuxnet malware is still full of other dangerous vulnerabilities, according to Russian researchers whose presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier this year was cancelled following a request from the company.

• DOJ charges Siemens execs with $100 million bribery scheme

  The U.S. Department of Justice has charged that six ex-Siemens executives bribed Argentine government officials in order to win a US$1 billion contract to provide national identity cards to the country's citizens.

• After Stuxnet, a rush to find bugs in industrial systems

  Kevin Finisterre isn't the type of person you expect to see in a nuclear power plant. With a beach ball-sized Afro, aviator sunglasses and a self-described "swagger," he looks more like Clarence Williams from the '70s TV show "The Mod Squad" than an electrical engineer.

• Zero-Day Flaws Discovered in SCADA Systems

  An Italian security researcher recently disclosed details about several zero-day vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems from several vendors.

• Siemens commits "basic security errors": Byres

  Leading US critical infrastructure security consultant Eric Byres has slammed security practices at Siemens following the demonstration of serious security vulnerabilities in their S7 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) at Black Hat 2011.

• A power plant hack that anybody could use

  The night before the start of this week's Black Hat hacker conference here in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford gave a demonstration to a small audience in his room at Caesar's Palace. The topic: how a hacker could take over the Siemens S7 computers that are used to control engines, machines and turbines in tens of thousands of industrial facilities.

• Siemens fixes industrial flaws found by hacker

  Siemens has fixed bugs in its Simatic S7 industrial computer systems, used to control machines on factory floors, power stations and chemical plants.

• After delay, hacker to show flaws in Siemens industrial gear

  A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his research at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

• Researcher blasts Siemens for downplaying SCADA threat

  The security researcher who last week voluntarily canceled a talk on critical vulnerabilities in Siemens' industrial control systems took the German giant to task Monday for downplaying the problem.

• Siemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher

  Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the seriousness of the problem to save face.