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Mikko Hypponen on the concept of cyber war

Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Mikko Hypponen expresses his viewpoint on the definition of cyber war and speaks about recent infamous cyber attacks. There is a lot of talk around cyber war. And that definition is kind of murky, it’s better to make distinctions between cyber attacks, cyber espionage,...

LinkedIn is hacked: Russian hacker steals 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords

Computer security experts and news agencies worldwide are reporting an outrageous hack causing the leak of about 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords today. Below are details of the LinkedIn hack and tips to avoid identity theft due to this jeopardy. Today’s message on one of the Russian forums stirred up the...

What is the Flame virus? Details from Kaspersky Lab

A Russian computer security company detected a new spyware program called Flame. Julia Smirnova from Die Welt, a German national daily newspaper, talks to Kaspersky Lab’s Senior Virus Analyst Alexander Gostev about this new cyber virus. – How did you track down the Flame virus? Alexander Gostev: In...

“Who unleashed Stuxnet?” – Mikko Hypponen on the origin of the Stuxnet virus

The well-known malware researcher Mikko Hypponen (CRO at F-Secure) speaks on the probable origin and objectives of the notorious Stuxnet virus, outlines mobile malware issues and sheds some light on the mysteries around Conficker worm. When Stuxnet was originally found in summer of 2010, we didn’t really...

Spam in social networks: Mikko Hypponen and Sean Sullivan on new spam issues

We are pleased to present a relevant discussion of the present-day social networking spam issues from a professional perspective. The experts participating in the talk are the famous ‘malware adventurer’ and F-Secure’s CRO Mikko Hypponen, and Sean Sullivan – Security Advisor at...

How to hack Facebook account 4: Geolocation via cross-site scripting

Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking Read: How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking Read: How to hack Facebook account 3: applying Cross-Protocol Scripting to attack victim’s network In the final part of Samy’s talk...

How to hack Facebook account 3: applying Cross-Protocol Scripting to attack victim’s network

Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking Read: How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking Having hacked the targeted Facebook account, which is outlined in the previous part of the speech, Samy Kamkar manages to get into the prey’s PC...

How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking

Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking Samy Kamkar continues his talk “How I Met Your Girlfriend” on hacking Facebook account, shedding some light on the use of LCG for reducing the amount of entropy So let’s take a little closer look. If...

How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking

Security researcher and former hacker Samy Kamkar delivers a speech at Defcon called “How I Met Your Girlfriend” where he introduces a PHP-based method of compromising a Facebook account for strictly personal purposes. Below is the adapted text version of his talk. So this is a discovery and...

You will be billed $90,000 for this call 4: mobile malware distribution patterns and protection tips from F-Secure

Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call: Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) on Dialers, telephone fraud, mobile malware Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call 2: F-Secure detects trojan malware in mobile game Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call 3: F-Secure discloses mobile app virus...