Let's compare the major computer operating systems at the moment. We have Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. We have various Linux distributions. And we have Mac OS X.

Of these, obviously Windows XP has the weakest security, by far.

And Windows XP has the biggest market share, too. Globally close to half of all computers still run XP.

And today, Windows XP is ten years old.

F-Secure has a long history in protecting it's customers. As a result, we have customers who have used our products for years and years.

And just like any other software vendor, we have to stop support for old legacy products at some stage.

We've recently started a major project with one of the largest broadband operators in North America.

As a result, F-Secure is hiring a bundle of new people.

We are in need of Architects, Developers, Testers, and Scrum Masters. We're looking for expertise in Python, C, SQL, Linux, high availability, scalability, automation, and networking.

We offer relocation packages and the works. And Helsinki is beautiful!

Here's a picture taken from our office's sauna balcony just now:

Yesterday, Adobe issued Security Advisory APSA11-02. The advisory states that:

"A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems."

There's going to be numerous updates published tomorrow by Microsoft.

But you'll more likely want to keep an eye on Adobe. Current versions of Flash are vulnerable.

More and more mobile phones are shipping with Windows installation files on microSD cards rather than on CD-ROMs. All that's needed to sync your phone with your PC is to connect the phone, detect it as a removable USB drive, and then run the installer. Many phone vendors also include an autorun.inf file to assist the process.

Yesterday, while researching some blacklisted domains, we came across five rogue scanning UIs hosted from a single URL.

That's five scams for the price of one and we only needed to refresh our browser. All of our screenshots were taken from a computer running Linux.

The first one called itself AntivirusPlus and wanted its victim to Erase infected.

Why is it that banking trojans are a problem when all online banks are HTTPS secured and many of them employ multi-factor authentication?

The answer: Humans are not digital.

Our Mac & Linux Team published an update to our Linux based F-Secure Rescue CD this week.

Rescue CD 3.11 now includes some useful disk utilities:

  •  PhotoRec — a recovery tool for data that's been accidentally deleted or lost due to a corrupted file system
  •  TestDisk — a recovery tool that can be used to recover a lost partition

- It would be useful to have support for Xen domU failover with VCS (similar to what you support for containers on Solaris10 now)

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