Did you know that it takes 140 liters of water to produce a cup of coffee, 170 liters of water to produce a glass of orange juice, 70 liters of water for an apple. All that water just for  one breakfast. Are we letting our ecological footprint grow out of control? What kind of planet we want [...]

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You’ve probably heard the news that employers in the United States have been asking for job applicants’ Facebook accounts. The ACLU has said that users should not provide it and so has Facebook. As Billy on our Facebook page points out, asking for a private password would certainly violate the rights of citizens of the [...]

What motivates most of the world’s most advanced mobile malware authors? One word: money. Mobile Threats Motivated by Profit, 2004-2011 “The most credible threat is coming from hackers who want to profit monetarily with their attacks. And right now we’re seeing more profit-motivated mobile malware than ever before,”  F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen said, in [...]

Are you ready for the new Facebook Timeline? Since the winter of 2011, Facebook has been slowly rolling out its new profile look to the nearly one billion people who use the world’s largest social network. Facebook has indicated every user will be forced to move over to the new profile look called Timeline. All [...]

F-Secure Labs has found that Ransomware is on the rise. What is Ransomware? It is malware that upon infection expands Internet Explorer to a full screen (F11). Ransomware then displays a message claiming to be from a local police unit. The message usually states that your computer has been used to browse sites containing child [...]

This week news that Facebook was experimenting with SMS functionality resulted in headlines about Facebook spying on its users. It’s true that Facebook’s Android App has the ability to read and write SMS messages, but it only can do so because you gave it permission to do so when you installed it. Many users see [...]

 Because of smart application development, most mobiles don’t face the plethora of threats that PC users do. But online criminals aim to change that. They’re working on malware for Macs, bad apps for Android and, of course, they can still hit you with a phishing scam on just about any web-connected device. Here are a [...]

Now is not time to be modest, as Finns often are. I’m proud to announce that it is now official: F-Secure has the best protection in the world! Our corporate product F-Secure Client Security has just won the BEST PROTECTION 2011 AWARD by AV-TEST. AV-TEST is an independent testing organization that evaluated 7 corporate protection [...]

When it comes to online dating, it seems there are two types of people: 1) People who do it, and 2) people who make fun of it. And many single people have found themselves in both groups. The fact is millions, if not billions, of relationships have begun online. And that number is growing as [...]