Lookout agrees to sell its consumer mobile security business to F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223M, transitioning into a “pure-play enterprise company”
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F-Secure to acquire MWR InfoSecurity for about $106M+ to offer better proactive threat detection and response
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F-Secure acquires Jonathan Zdziarski's Mac security app Little Flocker, will continue to offer it rebranded as Xfence for download
Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski revealed he was joining Apple earlier this month, and now it turns out his Mac security app, Little Flocker, has gone awol because it's joining F-Secure.
Virgin Media gives customers 5GB of free cloud storage, launches packages for additional space
Virgin Media has launched Virgin Media Cloud, its own cloud storage solution for its broadband customers. The company has teamed with F-Secure, a third-party firm that specialises in digital security...
Interim CEO on Nokia's future: network business, location anywhere, and advanced technologies
Nokia reinvented — Risto Siilasmaa has been the chairman of Nokia's board since his appointment in May 2012. A Finnish entrepreneur, the founder and chairman of the board of F-Secure …
Report suggests malware hits Iran atomic organization, blasts AC/DC at night
A purported Iran scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran e-mailed an SOS to F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen this weekend, saying the AEOI was under a cyber attack.
German government accused of spying on citizens with state-sponsored Trojan
Summary: A well-established group of German hackers has accused the German government of releasing a backdoor Trojan into the wild. Security firm F-Secure has confirmed that the program includes a ke...
Cracking open the cybercrime economy
"Over the years, the criminal elements, the ones who are making money, making millions out of all this online crime, are just getting stronger and stronger. I don't think we are really winning this w...
Rootkit woes for Sony again?
Remember the hubbub over Sony BMG Music Entertainment's rootkit debacle, involving its CDs? — Well, another arm of Sony, this time Sony Electronics, may face a little of the brouhaha, as well. — A...
F-Secure CEO: There's more malware than ever
Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia. silicon.com recently caught up with Alkio to discuss the security landscape, how governments sho...