Why Most Companies Won't Admit They Were Hacked (Mashable)
Mashable, 2/1/13
"Some companies that get hit like this never realize they were hit," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland. "Many of the companies that get hit are defense contractors. They'd rather not tell anyone they were hacked."
G Data InternetSecurity 2013 review (PC World)
PC World, 1/31/13
This indicates how well the product will successfully block brand new malware attacks when it encounters them in the wild. Of the nine security suites we tested, five completely blocked all attacks: G Data, F-Secure, Bitdefender, Norton, and Trend Micro.
Browsers Beat Security Software in Phishing Protection Test (PCmag.com)
PCmag.com, 1/30/13
What is the consequence of cyber warfare slowly becoming increasingly common? That was the basic question that guided the DLD keynotes of Eugene Kaspersky, the co-founder of security company Kaspersky Lab, and F-Secure‘s chief research officer Mikko Hypponen. Hypponen took a similar view. The “happy hacker” of the 80s and 90s, he said, is long gone. Instead, we now have to deal with criminals who try to make money from their malware and botnets, hacktivists who try to protest and governments attacking their own citizens and other governments for espionage and full-scale cyber warfare.
AVG Internet Security 2013 review (PC World)
PC World, 1/29/13
In our system cleanup test, AVG detected 100% of infections, but only disabled 90%, and only managed to completely clean up 60%. This isn't a great rate - F-Secure Internet Security 2013 managed to completely clean up 90% of malicious files - but it's also not the worst of the suites we tested.
Review: F-Secure Internet Security 2013: First-rate protection and usability has a small performance price (PC World)
PC World, 1/28/13
F-Secure Internet Security 2013 (about $73 for one year and one computer, as of 12/19/12) came in first in several of our malware detection, blocking, and removal tests. It successfully blocked attacks, detected and disabled infections, and proved adept at cleaning up all traces of malware, landing at the top of this year’s security suite roundup.
Review: Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2013: An all-around winner (PC World)
PC World, 1/28/13
Trend Micro’s user interface is relatively easy to understand, though it’s not as polished or attractive as AVG’s, F-Secure’s, or Norton’s. The main window has five tabs along the top: an Overview tab, and others for PC/Mobile, Privacy, Data, and Family. The Overview tab shows your protection status, along with some additional stats (such as how many threats have been stopped). This screen also has a scan button, a settings button, and a security-report button.
Review: Kaspersky Internet Security 2013: Good protection, advanced settings (minus the jargon) (PC World)
PC World, 1/28/13
In our system cleanup test, the Kaspersky software did an excellent job of detecting, disabling, and fully cleaning up infections. It detected and disabled all infections on our test PC, and fully cleaned up all traces of malware 80 percent of the time. Of the suites we tested, only two packages (Bitdefender and F-Secure) cleaned up more infections (90 percent), while three suites, including Kaspersky’s, cleaned up 80 percent.
Eugene Kaspersky, Mikko Hypponen Discuss the Internet, Cyber Warfare (Threat Post)
Threat Post, 1/25/13
In a video from this week's DLD Conference, F-Secure's Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen and Kaspersky Lab's CEO Eugene Kaspersky discuss increased paranoia surrounding cyber warfare, the dangers of the internet and the evolution of hacking throughout the years.
F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen on Cyber Warfare at Wired 2012 (Privacy PC)
Privacy PC, 1/22/13
Chief Research Officer at F-Secure and true computer security guru Mikko Hypponen outlines the state and scope of today’s cyber threatscape at Wired 2012 event.
Microsoft Rebuts Antivirus Test Failure (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine, 1/18/13
In December 2012," Blackbird continued, "we processed 20 million new potentially malicious files, and, using telemetry and customer impact to prioritize those files, added protection that blocked 4 million different malicious files on nearly 3 million computers. Those 4 million files could have been customer-impacting if we had not prioritized them appropriately." In other words, Microsoft fared poorly in this test due to their emphasis on prioritizing files that would actively impact their customers. It's an interesting point, but other vendors manage to protect their users and also earn top scores from AV-Test. Bitdefender, F-Secure, and Trend Micro all received 6 of 6 possible point in the protection test.
Red October malware discovered after years of stealing data in the wild (PC World)
PC World, 1/15/13
Even though Rocra's capabilities appear extensive, not everyone in the security field was impressed by Rocra's methods of attack. “It appears the exploits used were not advanced in any way,” the security firm F-Secure said on its company blog. “The attackers used old, well-known Word, Excel and Java exploits. So far, there is no sign of zero-day vulnerabilities being used.” A zero-day vulnerability refers to previously unknown exploits discovered in the wild.
See the RSA Spear-Hack in Action (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine, 1/8/2013
The Winners: As you can see, both Kaspersky and Bitdefender rated ADVANCED in one test and ADVANCED+ in all of the others. The AV-Comparatives team follows this rule in the event of a tie: "if there are two or more products with equal marks, the award goes to the product which has not previously received it." Since Kaspersky took the award last year, Bitdefender is this year's winner. Clearly Bitdefender is not the only product with excellent overall scores. AV-Comparatives identified several other "Top Rated" products: avast!, AVIRA, BullGuard, ESET, F-Secure, G DATA, and Kaspersky. Based on a scoring system assigning 15 points to ADVANCED+, 10 to ADVANCED, and 5 to STANDARD, each of these received at least 105 points. They didn't skip any tests, nor did they fail to achieve STANDARD in any tests.
See the RSA Spear-Hack in Action (San Jose Mercury News)
San Jose Mercury News, 1/7/2013
Mikko H. Hypponen, chief researcher at F-Secure, called Flame "a spectacular failure" for the anti-virus industry. "We really should have been able to do better," he wrote in an essay for Wired.com after Flame's discovery. "But we didn't. We were out of our league in our own game."