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Security firm F-Secure reports on the discovery of a new piece of Mac malware which takes screenshots and dumps them into a folder on the computer, then sends them to shady servers with unregistered domains.
The “Macs.app” malware uses a valid Apple ID (assigned to a certain Rajender Kumar) and dumps sai... |
17 May 2013
04:01 GMT |
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Security solutions provider F-Secure has launched the beta version of Safe Profile, a Facebook app designed to help users protect their privacy on the social media network.
Privacy is a major issue on Facebook these days, and despite the fact that the website allows users to precisely control what they share and who... |
7 May 2013
09:40 GMT |
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Security solutions provider F-Secure warns that 87% of the corporate computers they’ve gathered data from lack critical software updates. This represents a serious threat to business security, especially now, when large organizations are often targeted by cyberattacks.
“From the numbers, it appears many ... |
18 April 2013
18:11 GMT |
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The free Online Scanner from F-Secure has been completely re-built in order to make it faster, lighter and more powerful. The tool now includes the ability to detect and clean advanced rootkits.
F-Secure Online Scanner is a small download of 5MB and it is portable. Because rootkits are nasty pieces of malware that b... |
5 April 2013
09:08 GMT |
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Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, has issued a terse tweet referencing the growing malware and security threats faced by Android customers, suggesting iOS is a far better solution. Schiller’s tweet reads, “Be safe out there,” and includes a link to a study from F-Se... |
8 March 2013
08:02 GMT |
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Finnish security firm F-Secure has released its Mobile Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2012. The study shows that while Android malware continues its upward trend, the number of malicious elements that target Symbian have recorded an abrupt drop.
Malware targeting Symbian accounts for only 4% of all the mobi... |
8 March 2013
05:29 GMT |
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World renowned information security firm F-Secure has launched Safe Avenue, a new offering that’s beneficial for both consumers and operators.
Safe Avenue allows consumers to ensure that all their devices are properly secured – regardless if they’re PCs, Android devices or Macs –, and gives o... |
1 March 2013
10:49 GMT |
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Finnish security solutions provider F-Secure has launched F-Secure Client Security 10, a product that’s designed to help organizations in protecting their systems against threats from cyberspace.
F-Secure Client Security 10 is powered by DeepGuard 4, the latest version of the company’s detection engine. ... |
7 February 2013
08:59 GMT |
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In 2011, Verizon said that hacktivists beat cybercriminals in data thefts, so the year was declared the “year of the hacktivist.”
According to F-Secure’s latest threat report, 2012 was the year of the exploit because exploit-related threats accounted for a large part of the detections recorded by ... |
6 February 2013
17:01 GMT |
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AV-Comparatives is not the only independent antivirus testing organization to acknowledge the efficiency of Bitdefender products. German institute AV-TEST has awarded Bitdefender’s Internet Security with the Best Repair 2012 title in the home-user products category.
AV-TEST praises the ability of Bitdefender s... |
30 January 2013
09:28 GMT |
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Security firm F-Secure has launched a video series to answer some important questions about online banking security. In the ten short videos, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hyppönen and Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor at F-Secure Labs detail topics such as remembering strong passwords, ATM securi... |
18 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Experts from security firm F-Secure have published a highly interesting infographic to show less techie users how cybercriminals manage to gain access to our bank accounts and steal our money.
Cyber bank robberies affect all of us and anyone can become a victim of such crimes. In 2010, the US FBI investigated a tota... |
7 December 2012
13:11 GMT |
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F-Secure has announced today that there is a Banking Protection module available for their Internet Security 2013 suite.
Since the perils of online banking are continuously increasing, the lack of such a component in F-Secure Internet Security 2013 placed the suite among the most under-featured security products on ... |
13 November 2012
09:13 GMT |
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F-Security has released its Mobile Threat Report for the third quarter of 2012. The study focuses on potentially unwanted software, the pieces of spyware and the pieces of malware that posed the greatest threat to mobile phone users in the past four months.
As far as Android is concerned, a number of 51.447 unique ... |
5 November 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Everyone is aware by now of the incident in which journalist Mat Honan has taken center stage. A number of his accounts have been taken over – iCloud, Google, Amazon and Twitter – and everything culminated with the hackers hijacking the official Gizmodo Twitter feed.
After the incident took place, exper... |
8 August 2012
08:37 GMT |
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F-Secure has released its Mobile Threat report for the second quarter of 2012 and, as expected, the numbers show that Android malware has continued its steady incline.
The figures from the paper reveal that a total of 5033 malicious Android app package files (APKs) have been identified in the past three months. Sta... |
8 August 2012
05:22 GMT |
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In an article he wrote about cyber war and the “tools” that fuel it, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen highlights the impact of Stuxnet, the now-infamous Trojan, on the threat landscape and the way it influenced the cyber arms race. Currently, Stuxnet no longer represents a threat, b... |
16 July 2012
05:05 GMT |
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F-Secure just released the beta version for their Internet Security 2013 suite. The novelties touted for this revision are designed to increase the protection level it delivers as well as the overall performance of the package. Browser support in F-Secure Internet Security 2013 has been extended to include Google Ch... |
8 June 2012
10:31 GMT |
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F-Secure released DNS Check, a tool designed specifically to scan your computer and detect if the DNS settings have undergone malicious modifications. If this is the case, the instrument can restore the DNS configuration to a clean state. With new discoveries about “Flame” Trojan and the origin of Stuxne... |
2 June 2012
07:20 GMT |
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After promoting a set of Terminal commands to manually remove the Flashback Trojan, software security vendor F-Secure has released a Flashback Removal Tool that automates the detection and removal of the widespread Flashback Mac OS X malware.Mac users fearing that they might have contracted the malware that reportedl... |
12 April 2012
06:06 GMT |
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Christian Fredrikson started taking his role seriously on January 16, even though he was officially named president and CEO of F-Secure Corporation since November 2011.
Aged 47, Fredrikson is a Finnish citizen, married and the father of two children. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from Åbo Aka... |
17 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Researchers from F-Secure have put together a report to show the evolution of new threats that target Apple systems. The numbers show the new unique variants the company’s threat researchers detected during the last three quarters of 2011.
More than half of the malicious elements that targeted Mac-running mach... |
17 January 2012
06:48 GMT |
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F-Secure, the people who in October sounded the alarm on the Flashback malware emerging on Mac OS X, have announced today that an updated version of DevilRobber is on the loose.“We found an updated version of Backdoor:OSX/DevilRobber, which we posted about earlier,” writes Wayne over at the F-S... |
16 November 2011
10:12 GMT |
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Security researchers at F-Secure have found a new variant of the Flashback Trojan masquerading as an Adobe Flash installer package, this time its purpose being to disable the actual XProtect defense mechanism in Mac OS X tasked with stopping such attacks.“There's something new brewing in Mac malware ... |
20 October 2011
09:14 GMT |
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The Finnish security provider decided to offer its entire business portfolio as a service to companies who want to leave the safekeeping of their data in the hands of others in order to be able to better focus on their main activities.
A few hundred companies around the world already trust their solutions, but fr... |
12 October 2011
08:09 GMT |
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ShareSafe is an application designed to keep your Facebook account safe from spam and other malicious elements which affect online profiles. Social networks are experiencing an all time high, this being a great chance for spammers and hackers to launch their ill-intended operations. According to the creators of the a... |
5 September 2011
09:58 GMT |
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F-Secure has patched a remote code execution vulnerability that affected several of its security products and exposed users to drive-by download attacks.The buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered by security consultant Anil Aphale, aka 41.w4r10r, and is located in the F-Secure Gadget Resource Handler ActiveX Co... |
26 August 2011
08:45 GMT |
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The German IT Agency has issued a security note about the PDF vulnerability used by hackers to jailbreak Apple’s iOS-powered devices, warning users to stay away from the JailbreakMe hack. A security firm weighing in on the matter goes as far as to suggest iPhone users are now in need of an antivirus.
The vul... |
7 July 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Mikko of F-Secure, a company analyzing virus, phishing, spyware, and spam attacks, has published questions and answers on the jailbreakme vulnerability to ensure iOS device owners worldwide are well informed about the security risks they are exposed to.The post starts out with some general information to get everyone... |
9 August 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Search engine-based company Google has reportedly pulled a series of banking applications from the Android Market, following reports that they might have been used to steal users’ confidential banking information. All of the applications were submitted by the same anonymous developer, 09Droid, and were pulled ... |
13 January 2010
06:12 GMT |
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F-Secure announced that it would make available a new version of its F-Secure Mobile Security during this month for the fresh S60 5th Edition platform, the latest version based on S60 Symbian OS. F-Secure Mobile Security 5 is one of the first software solutions to come with support for the new touch user interface th... |
18 February 2009
06:23 GMT |
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After previously compromising websites belonging or related to Kaspersky and Bitdefender, the Romanian hackers from the HackersBlog crew launched a new successful SQL injection attack against the website of an antivirus vendor. This time around, it was F-Secure, however, the security breach did not have the potential... |
12 February 2009
04:07 GMT |
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The concept of going green is targeting the IT security world too; just because you have to deal with viruses and Trojans and other malware all day long does not mean you should disregard the environment. Representatives from different security software companies have different views regarding this issue. Richard Sti... |
7 July 2008
04:24 GMT |
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A long time ago, when we first detected a Google AdWords phishing scam, it all looked like a shy attack because nobody could ever think that it would last several months. Even if phishing websites have been shut down, attackers are continuously creating new ones, which simply follow the same line: malicious emails se... |
28 May 2008
03:28 GMT |
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F-Secure has just rolled out Internet Security 2009 Beta 8.30 build 139 which represents an all-in-one solution supposed to assure you that no malicious file reaches your computer. The application incorporates multiple security utilities, as it follows: anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Email Scanning and Web Traffic Scannin... |
30 April 2008
11:08 GMT |
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F-Secure is a company which has rolled out numerous security applications targeting most operating systems out there, but most focused on Windows. Today, the company has just rolled out a new beta, namely Home Server Security Beta 1.00 build 166, a special software solution which is supposed to bring more security to... |
22 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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The dangerous Storm Trojan is out in the wild again and lurking, waiting to infect people's computers, and this time the approach is a bit different. It's no longer playing on people's emotions for various holidays like in the past, with Christmas or Valentine's, probably because there aren't... |
3 March 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Attacks that are using Windows Updates in order to spread malware and compromise Microsoft platforms are nothing more than an integral part of the luxuriant threat environment that preys on unsuspecting users. But generally the attacks masquerading as Microsoft Updates are nothing more than social engineering tricks ... |
8 February 2008
09:32 GMT |
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If you were a hacker, your greatest achievement would surely be hacking a security company, exactly the one that should block your malicious attempts. This is exactly what happened a few days ago to F-Secure, one of the top security companies in the world, which got its forum hacked after a Turkish group discovered a... |
14 December 2007
10:35 GMT |
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Security vendor F-Secure today reported that a new technique is being used by the attackers aiming to compromise users' computers and steal their sensitive information. Codename 'Man in the Browser', the new type of attack attempts to install a malicious file on the systems and remain inactive until th... |
22 November 2007
10:04 GMT |
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Security company F-Secure was recently attacked by a virus, as part of a DDoS attack which attempted to display a message saying that Mikko Hyppnen, an employee of the firm, needs a haircut. The attack was launched on October 28 but due to a mistake in the virus code, it was unable to display the message mentioned abov... |
8 November 2007
06:38 GMT |
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Remember that piece of news about the NSA (the US National Security Agency) gathering huge amounts of data? Well, they face a serious threat because of it, but they can afford it, after all, they're the NSA! The danger is the fact that when sitting upon a huge pile of information that you have gathered for secur... |
2 October 2007
08:45 GMT |
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F-Secure is a corporation that, through its products, protects both consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats. One of their AV products, F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 7.x, has been disclosed to have a vulnerability.This flaw could be exploited by malware to bypass the scanning func... |
27 September 2007
10:17 GMT |
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The F-Secure Corporation has announced today that they have launched the new F-Secure Internet Security 2008 solution thus making even more efforts in order for users to take full advantages as well as opportunities of the web, easily and safe. For those of you that do not know, F-Secure Corporation protects consumer... |
3 September 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Let me present you the story so far: FlexiSpy, a solution especially designed for Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms, was released in May, causing an interesting dispute with security companies. In fact, it was only one firm that decided to continue the talks with Vervata, the parent company of the mobile solution.... |
5 July 2007
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest operating system managed to hold its own against attacks targeting the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability publicly disclosed as the beginning of April, 2007. Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure Corp. Chief Research Officer attending InfoSecurity Europe in London told the IDG News Service that... |
25 April 2007
03:37 GMT |
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F-Secure is an anti-virus and computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland. The company has large branch offices in the USA and Japan, where some of the antivirus analysis and software development work is also being carried on. Things went smooth for folks in that company for quite some time, until..... |
2 April 2007
08:47 GMT |
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