November 28, 2010 - The infamous Sony Rootkit case is five years old today.The Sony rootkit was shipped on millions on music CDs from well-known artists such as Celine Dion, Neil Diamond and Ricky Martin.When such audio CDs (continue reading...) Read more
November 26, 2010 - Two PETN bombs were found last night. One was hidden inside a laser printer toner cartridge. The bombs were reportedly sent from Yemen to USA on board regular freight planes. (continue reading...) Read more
November 26, 2010 - Year 2010 is becoming a good year in shutting down big botnets.Latest case: Bredolab. (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2010 - Surfing the web with an unencrypted HTTP connection is not safe, especially if you're doing it over an unencrypted Wi-Fi connection: anybody else at the same hotspot can use special tools to monitor your traffic.Surfing the (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2010 - "Warpigs" from group "m00p" pleaded guilty today at the Southwark Crown Court in London.We here at F-Secure are happy to get some closure on this long case, with which (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2010 - Actually, Microsoft Security Essentials is not fake. It's a real antivirus product from Microsoft.However, there's a rogue security product out there that claims to be "Microsoft Security Essentials". It has nothing to do with Microsoft. (continue reading...) Read more
November 19, 2010 - How not to manage your passwords…John, and his unique approach to security is part of an F-Secure Internet Security (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2010 - Riding on Firefox's ability to block attack sites, Security Tool, a rogue antivirus application, is attempting a new trick. It wasn't too long ago when it utilized the Firefox Update Flash feature to push its wares. (continue reading...) Read more
November 13, 2010 - Mikko was one of the participants in the special keynote panel discussion on "The Future of Mobile Malware & Cloud Computing" at last week's Hack In The Box 2010 Malaysia conference: (continue reading...) Read more
November 9, 2010 - Cydia Store is similar to Apple's App Store, except it's for jailbroken iPhones.There's a wide variety of free apps on Cydia and dozens of commercial applications on Cydia Store.By browsing the available applications in (continue reading...) Read more
November 8, 2010 - The winners of Computer Weekly's Blog Awards 2010 will be announced on the 18th of November.That means you have one month (plenty of time) to head on over to Computer Weekly and vote.F-Secure (continue reading...) Read more
November 5, 2010 - XDA-Developers member Chet Striker recently tweeted about his mobile espionage suite called Phone Creeper.Version 0.95 was released today.Phone Creeper is a Windows Mobile application (also being developed for Android). (continue reading...) Read more
November 5, 2010 - Mikko recently filmed a mobile security summary, from May to September.The video is on our FSecureNews YouTube channel and can be viewed here:You (continue reading...) Read more
November 1, 2010 - More and more banking services are being outsourced to mobile devices. Example: PayPal version 2.7 for iOS now includes a check capture feature that lets you snap a photo of a check for deposit in your PayPal (continue reading...) Read more
November 1, 2010 - Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced on their blog that the site will soon be offering new features and controls. The features include New Facebook Groups, a Dashboard for Applications, and the ability to Download Your Information. (continue reading...) Read more
October 26, 2010 - Mikko Hypponen, our Chief Research Officer, was given an award last week at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver.There were six different Virus Bulletin awards given out. They are presented every ten years. (continue reading...) Read more
October 25, 2010 - Congratulations, you noticed the mismatch between the page contents — clearly for a bank — and its dubious URL! Another extra point if you suspected something is off in Step (continue reading...) Read more
October 22, 2010 - Say you're a social media spammer that drives traffic towards CPAlead.com surveys…What do you do when English speakers are increasing desensitized towards Facebook spam?Language localization!We're currently seeing a run of Facebook spam (continue reading...) Read more
October 21, 2010 - Stuxnet continues to be a hot topic. Here are answers to some of the questions we've received.Q: What is Stuxnet?A: It's a Windows worm, spreading via USB sticks. Once inside an organization, it can also (continue reading...) Read more
October 21, 2010 - Microsoft has released an out-of-band security bulletin (MS10-070), for the ASP.NET "information disclosure" vulnerability.The short version of the vulnerability is that exploiting it generates unintended error messages containing information that an attacker may be able to (continue reading...) Read more