The US Attorney General, New Hampshire, and the Local Banking Department got two complaints in the recent weeks from lawyers whom international scammers had targeted. The scam involving a fake check has cost in excess of $240,000 to a local attorney.

Police have arrested a man in Germany over an alleged use of malware for spying the activities of schoolgirls who had their webcams on. Hailing from Aachen, the miscreant seemingly infiltrated about 150 young women's privacy.

A new security vulnerability makes numerous household routers vulnerable to attack as it helps hackers to compromise consumers' browsing sessions or infiltrate home PCs.

Security researchers at anti-virus firm ESET state that they have discovered one digitally-signed malicious program associated with the recently found Stuxnet worm.