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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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