January 9, 2012 - Do you need Java in your web browser? Seriously, do you? If not, get rid of it.Turns out, most users don't need Java any more, yet people keep running it.Do not confuse Java with (continue reading...) Read more
January 9, 2012 - Some of our legacy software is approaching its end-of-life (EOL).F-Secure has a long history of protecting its (continue reading...) Read more
January 5, 2012 - We're seeing a rather suspicious social spam run on both Facebook and Twitter today.And apparently, it's been spreading for 5 days. (continue reading...) Read more
January 3, 2012 - Facebook has started rolling out its new Timeline profile and over the weekend, here in Finland, there were some reports that private messages are being posted to users' profiles.We have seen no solid evidence of (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - It's patch Tuesday and Microsoft has just issued a patch for the zero-day vulnerability that was used by the Duqu malware discovered in October. To quote (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - Premium rate SMS trojans were discovered in Google's Android Market earlier today.The developer, named "Logastrod", offered supposed free versions of many popular applications. And while Google has shut down the official market account, sites such (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - We ran across two Android premium-SMS trojans today, coincidentally both targeted at Russian users.First, Trojan:Android/SMStado.A (SHA1: 718b8fbab302b3eb652ee0a5f43a5a2c5c0ad087).As usual, the first hint of its nature comes in its requested permissions: (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and eavesdropping is used by online criminals. The same techniques are also used by governments. Some government do this to spy on their own people or to find dissidents. Other governments do this while investigating (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - There's only a couple of more days to submit a suggestion to our Community's Laptop Sticker Contest.Here's some of the suggestions we've received via Twitter.You (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - F-Secure's Community Manager, Ania, asked Mikko and I to take part in a Q&A week. And so, this week, from December 5th to the 9th, we'll be answering questions in our Community forums. (continue reading...) Read more
December 25, 2011 - Foreign Policy magazine annually publishes a list of "Top 100 Global Thinkers". In previous years, people such as Carl Bildt, Angela Merkel, Liu Xiaobo, and Tarja Halonen have been on the list.The 2011 list was published (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2011 - Mikko presented at TEDxBrussels this week.A video is available here:Additional videos and interviews are available on our (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2011 - Yesterday, CIO's Constantine von Hoffman published a post titled "IT Security News Sources to be Thankful for" and we would like to thank him for a very amusing shout-out. (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2011 - Time for another Laptop Stickers contest! See here, here, here, here, here and here (lots o' links) for past examples.We started collecting suggestions on our F-Secure Community pages and from (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2011 - We found an updated version of Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber, which we posted about earlier.The updated version uses the same technique as its predecessor to disguise itself as a legitimate application, though this time it calls itself (continue reading...) Read more
December 20, 2011 - Analysts on our Threat Research team recently discovered OpFake, a premium rate SMS trojan that shares code with Spitmo. And this week, our automation flagged a new sample. The guys have completed their analysis and it (continue reading...) Read more
December 19, 2011 - Certificates and CAs continue to be a hot topic (think Stuxnet, Duqu, Comodogate, Diginotar, et cetera).Every now and then we run into malware that has been signed with a code signing certificate. This is problematic, as (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - A US court has indicted seven men (6 Estonians and 1 Russian) as part of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Operation Ghost Click. Estonian authorities have made 6 arrests, the Russian defendant is still at large. (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - This month's Microsoft Updates includes an interesting vulnerability:Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-083"This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow (continue reading...) Read more
December 10, 2011 - The Internet Collective known as Anonymous had a busy "Guy Fawkes Weekend".Here are a few highlights on their recent activities.Mexico: OpCartel is nixed. Anonymous claims the Zetas, a very dangerous Mexican drug cartel, (continue reading...) Read more