F-Secure reports malware doubled in 2007

December 4th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Data & Research | View Comments

Leading security company and Commtouch partner F-Secure published its semi-annual IT Security Threat Summary today. Their labs have seen the number of malware samples double since the beginning of 2007, from 250,000 to 500,000.

Source: F-Secure
It’s not so much that there are new types of malicious code, but that malware writers are mass producing slightly tweaked [...]

Mikko Hyponnen Interview

May 6th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Email Security | View Comments

F-Secure is one of the leading companies devoted to the study and prevention of computer viruses, spam, and other types of malware. Mikko Hypponen, the company’s Director of Anti-Virus Research, joins Phil and Scott in a discussion of the current status of the virus problem. In addition to reviewing his background, Mikko talks about how [...]

A war between good and evil

March 19th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Email Security | View Comments

Anti-virus leaders Kaspersky and F-Secure paint a grim picture of the battle against malware. Reporting from CeBIT, the article describes an overwhelming ‘avalanche’ of malicious code.
Read what Mikko Hypponen and Kaspersky himself had to say in the Deutsche Welle article:
At Tech Fair, Experts Say War Against Viruses Could Be Lost
(Thanks to Haggai for this article)

CeBIT Madness

March 19th, 2007 by Nikki | Category: Security Conferences | View Comments

Our International Business Development team is in the midst of the monster of IT events, CeBIT in Hannover Germany. F-Secure’s CEO described the experience and provided an illustrative photo on the F-Secure blog:
It is that time of the year again. CeBIT, the world’s largest IT fair starts today in Hannover, Germany.
As usual, CeBIT is massive. [...]

Zombie Trojans — Night of the living spam

January 26th, 2007 by Jay | Category: Commtouch Lore | View Comments

First post, and I thought I would chip in with some links to other blogs I read occassionally. I saw a presentation by Mykko Hypponen of F-Secure, who gave the keynote at Virus Bulletin 2006 in Montreal. Amazing presentation, and funny too. Who knew viruses, or Finns were that funny. So you can get to [...]