Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Just in time for Macworld: A rogue application dubbed MacSweeper
- F-Secure claims to have discovered the first Mac rogue application--MacSweeper. According to F-Secure, MacSweeper is spyware that closely resembles its Windows cousin Cleanator. Here's how it works: You install MacSweeper and it proceeds to "clean" your Mac of compromising files. This spyware is so...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, F-Secure Corp., JIT, MacSweeper, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Storm worm goes phishing
- The dreaded Storm worm is now being used for phishing scams, according to security researchers. F-Secure outlined a phishing scam involving the Storm worm all resources on i-halifax.com and noted that the site's IP address changed every second or so--it was hosted within a botnet. ...
- Tags: Worm, F-Secure Corp., Storm Worm, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting Macs
- F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting MacsHmm most of the planet vs a vanishingly small naive user groupEssentially going after Mac users is like shooting sitting ducks. To most hackers it wasn't even a challenge considering the small user base. The more Apple raises its profile (and...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Cyberthreats, Construction, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, F-Secure Corp., Apple Macintosh, attack, window, malware, antivirus
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting Macs
- The idea that Macs and the Mac OS would somehow remain invisible to hackers despite enjoying huge influx of new users was just too good to be true. To be honest, the only people who really believed that hackers wouldn't start targeting the Mac platform were Mac users looking for...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Malware, F-Secure Corp., Hacker, Desktops, Security, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the rise
- F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the riseBotnets controlling botnetsSo if I have botnets controlling my botnets... are my botnets really smaller?
- Tags: botnet, F-Secure Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Rootkit-like behavior found on Sony fingerprint reader
- Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure has found rootkit-like features in a plug-and-play fingerprint reader marketed by Sony.The discovery was made when F-Secure's BlackLight scanner picked up hidden files on a system with the Sony Microvault USM-F fingerprint reader software.F-Secure Mika Stahlberg explains:The Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader software that comes with...
- Tags: Technique, Sony Corp., Directory, F-Secure Corp., Rootkit, Fingerprint Reader, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- F-Secure Internet Security 2007 beta
- Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure has released a beta of its upcoming F-Secure Internet Security 2007 product. New this year is better antispyware integration, including real-time spyware protection and F-Secure's unique Blacklight rootkit scanning technology; e-mail antiphishing protection; three different parental control profiles; and automatic program updates. Anyone who wishes to...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Network security, Cyberthreats, F-Secure Corp., F-Secure Internet Security
- Product reviews 2006-09-06
- Kama Sutra worm hype may bite back
- Kama Sutra worm hype may bite backThank you, MyDoom!Because of all the hype surrounding MyDoom variants, people have become more cautious about suspicious e-mail attachments. Since KS used the same method of spreading via email, people already knew what to do with it when it came around.The KS...
- Tags: E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, iDefense, worm, Kama Sutra worm, F-Secure Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-03
- F-Secure Internet Security 2006
- F-Secure Internet Security 2006 provides a strong defense against Internet baddies, including viruses, malware, spam, phishing attempts, and cracker intrusions. It's aggressively priced $20 less than competing suites from McAfee and Symantec, and its well-crafted interface makes it easy to change security settings. Even better, F-Secure won't slow your PC...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, spyware detection, F-Secure Internet Security 2006, F-Secure Corp., security
- Product reviews 2006-01-27
- F-Secure issues patch for critical flaws
- F-Secure issues patch for critical flawsOf course this story makes me wonder...I'm just waiting now for the Linux zealots to start diving in and explaining how products designed for Linux that have security flaws got those flaws from either XP or IE. I'm not sure how they are going to...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows XP, NortonWorks, flaw, Typo, Linux, F-Secure Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-19
- New zero day exploit seen in the wild
- I've been watching this story off and on all day. Here's a summary with pertinent links.I first saw this posted at SunbeltBLOG -- researchers there documented a new exploit that affects fully patched Windows XP SP2 machines. Landing on an infected web page can set off the...
- Tags: exploit
- Blog posts 2005-12-28
- F-Secure: Commwarrior claims first big victim
- F-Secure: Commwarrior claims first big victimClueless people doing stupid thingsGood thing they are in Scandanavia, if they were in Gnar-lins, they'd be dead or swimming in sewage . . .Allright, RogYou made your point. Now you're just taking pot shots. It's not like Detroit is paradise, either. ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Evil, Microsoft Corp., F-Secure Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-31
- The most dangerous email attachments aren't for humans
- We like to poke fun at people who continue to foolishly click on those e-mail attachments that keep infecting them over and over again. The last thing you would expect are security products -- designed to protect us from infected email in the first place --that foolishly open up e-mail...
- Tags: UPX, ARJ
- Blog posts 2005-03-03
- F-Secure flaw opens door to intruders
- F-Secure flaw opens door to intrudersWindows is so full of holes ...That even the antivirus products that are supposed to defend it are being successfully attacked. Totally amazing!I do not run any AV packageand I do not get viruses. When you travel over a minefield, use a metal detector....
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, F-Secure Corp., virus, antivirus software, software, malware, Unix, antivirus, operating system
- Discussion threads 2005-02-11
- New worm moves at near-record speed
- New worm moves at near-record speedNT Which OS is Vulnerable? Is It Windows? The Article Does not Say...Yawn, just another day in the monocultureYou've only got 70,006 viruses to look out for today. Smile, can it get much worse?I wouldn't care about thisif it weren't wasting SO MUCH network...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Windows, worm, F-Secure Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-01
- Securing the Mobile Enterprise With F-Secure
- The Metropolitan Transit Authority MTA of New York is the United States' largest transportation agency, moving 2.3 billion people and carrying 300 million vehicles each year throughout its network of subways, buses, railroads, tunnels and bridges. The MTA needed a total IT security solution to protect sensitive information throughout its...
- Tags: Mobile, F-Secure Corp., Metropolitan Transit Authority, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
