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Scareware and "Scary" Scams Aren't the Same Thing
Two big headlines to comment on.First, there's this: FTC Case Results in $163 Million Judgment Against "Scareware" Marketer.The defendant, Kristy Ross, has been involved in U.S. FTC cases going back...
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Global James Bond Day
Today, October 5th is Global James Bond Day celebrating the 50th anniversary of Agent 007 (in film). Okay, it's a promotional thing for the upcoming film — Skyfall — but it's still pretty cool.And it...
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VB2012 Paper: Flashback OS X Malware
F-Secure Labs Analyst, Broderick Aquilino, recently presented at Virus Bulletin 2012 in Dallas.His topic of research was the OS X malware, Flashback, which was spreading back in April.You can download...
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Hackable Huawei
The U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence created quite a stir on Monday with its report on Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE.The report recommends excluding...
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Next Week: "World War"
This is the event that will be making headlines next week… if you aren't yet aware of it, you should be.The ITU Telecom World 2012 conference in Dubai:Why will it be making headlines?The answer to...
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Mikko Hypponen: One of the Good Guys
Our Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen, is considered by some to be an "infosec rock star".Also, he is known by many for his ponytail.(Something which really isn't all that uncommon in infosec —...
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This Machine Kills Secrets
Forbes tech reporter Andy Greenberg's book, This Machine Kills Secrets was published on September 13th.It's been working it way up the sale charts since.Here's a New York Times book review by Evgeny...
View Article'Cyber Pearl Harbor'
US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has warned that the United States faces a possible 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' attack by foreign computer hackers.Is the risk level really so high?In order to estimate...
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Video Interview: On Cybercrime and Digital War
Mikko did this video interview for Tweakers (a Dutch website) last week. It's almost completely in English. [11'27"]Mikko Hypponen over cybercrime en digitale oorlog — Mikko Hypponen on cybercrime and...
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Ghost in the Drone
Washington Post has a long and interesting article series on US Drone operations in Africa.The article has this interesting snippet, taken from declassified US Drone incident reports:Air Force...
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United Nations on the use of the internet for terrorist purposes
Technology is one of the strategic factors driving the increasing use of the Internet by terrorist organizations and their supporters for a wide range of purposes, including recruitment, financing,...
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Q3 2012 Mobile Threat Report is Out!
Our Mobile Threat Report is out, covering mobile threats found throughout the third quarter of 2012. 67 new families and variants of existing families were discovered, and some platforms that were...
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A Presidential Visit to F-Secure
The President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, paid us a visit last Friday.He was on a working visit, and afterwards, came to see Mikko whom he follows on Twitter.And it was a very interesting...
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Tally of November's Vulnerabilities and a Zero-Day
It's not yet the second Tuesday of the month — but already there are a good number of important updates that you should apply. And one significant zero-day of which you should be aware.First up:...
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Meet Timo and Karmina
Two of our analysts have recently done guest posts for our Safe and Savvy blog.Meet Timo: We Protect You: Timo Hirvonen, Anti-malware AnalystAnd Karmina: An ounce of prevention: Anticipating online...
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Q3 Mobile Threats in Play
Our Q3 2012 Mobile Threat Report shows that we discovered more than 51,000 samples of Android malware during the third quarter.And we've been asked, how many of those were discovered in Google Play?So...
View ArticleNew Variant of Mac Revir Found
There are reports of a new variant of Mac malware. We are aware of the attack and our customers are already protected. It's a minor variant of Revir.C. For the payload, it's basically still the same...
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TED Talks For Geeks
TED Talks have reached a major milestone: its videos have now been viewed more than One Billion times. That's a lot. There are around 1000 talks, so that's an average of million views per talk. Which...
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Berlin Police: Beware Android Banking Trojans
The Berlin Police Department issued a press release this past Tuesday about criminal complaints of fraudulent cash withdrawals. All of the cases involved SMS mTans and Android smartphones.Original;...
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Cool-er Than Blackhole?
Exploit kits are still making rounds, nothing new there. But in addition to the popular Blackhole Exploit Kit, a new kid on the block emerges which has been dubbed as Cool Exploit Kit.It's very...
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