3 posts and columns on F-Secure

Anonymous Plays Robin Hood With Stolen Credit Cards

in News on December 26, 2011 at 7:34 am PT

The hackers of Anonymous are at it again, attacking the servers of intelligence think tank Stratfor, and then using the pilfered credit cards to give money to charities.
hackers_ver1

Voices

Twitter Begins Filtering Links

in News on August 3, 2009 at 2:41 pm PT

Twitter quietly started checking the URLs that its users post, a security measure aimed at weeding out links to known malware sites. As online security firm F-Secure points out, the microblogging service “is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking” and can easily filter links posted through it.

If Stupidity Were Illegal, You Might Have a Valid Counterclaim …

in News on July 13, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Still smarting over the flogging it suffered back in 2005 for encoding some of its music CDs with a harebrained rootkit copy-protection software, Sony BMG lashed out against the company that developed it last week, slapping it with a lawsuit. Sony accuses Amergence Group, formerly SunnComm International, of “negligence, unfair business practices and breaching the [...]