Tag: F-Secure
Suomen Migri is under heavy criticism for the case of the Mongolian nurse
Boldbaatar, the newspaper wrote, graduated as a nurse in Helsinki in May 2020, in the middle of Finland’s first wave of coronavirus infections. After working for a couple of months in the internal medicine department of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS), he voluntarily moved to the intensive care unit to treat Covid-19 patients. […]
F-Secure: Information of 200,000 Finnish LinkedIn users on hacker forum
LinkedIn has strongly denied the claims of the leak, says the cyber security news site.
Most of Finland’s highly educated people abroad have experienced discrimination in their job search and work
says Mika Sallinen, Country Director of Universum Finland, an organization focusing on employer image research and development. A joint study by Universum and the City of Espoo also revealed that the biggest challenges in job search are related to employers’ requirements for proficiency in the mother tongue of Finnish. “The survey was answered by almost […]
Hacked into the phones of Finnish diplomats
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs said on Friday that some of the diplomats working in its Finnish embassies had been subjected to espionage. The ministry did not disclose where the hacking took place. F-Secure Cyber Security Expert Mikko Hyppönen said that this is the first time Pegasus, developed by the Israeli NSO Group, has been […]
Security aspects will emerge when Finland introduces the Covid passport
Finland presented the national Covid passport on Friday. The main purpose of the passport is to allow companies, such as restaurants or gyms, to circumvent regional coronavirus restrictions by ensuring that customers are fully vaccinated against the virus, have recently received a negative test, or have recovered from the virus. How does it work? Yle […]
New normal? Eight employers describe hybrid work plans
In Finland, employers are preparing for the return of employees who have worked remotely for much of the Covid crisis. The government’s telework recommendations are due to end in mid-October, but workers ’opinions are divided on whether returning to work is a good idea. Some workers feel that it has been shown that they can […]
Finnish security expert: Concentration of online services in Silicon Valley is a weak point
Research Manager of F-Secure, a Finnish cyber security company, Mikko Hyppönen, said the long Facebook outage on Monday was exceptional. The social media platforms Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were away for about six hours on Monday night Finnish time. The problem also affected companies that use Facebook as a login service, as well […]
Police: Increasing non-EU import delays is likely to increase fraud
In recent years, the popularity of online shopping abroad has grown in Finland, especially during the coronavirus crisis. A large proportion of incoming parcels were ordered and shipped from China, the United States or elsewhere outside the EU. Most of these packages have arrived at their destination without taxes and extra paperwork. But the largely […]
The pandemic increased spying on computer networks, says the intelligence service
Spies may have been among those who have to work remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, say researchers from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. According to security services, foreign intelligence services have stepped up their efforts to gather intelligence online over the past year. According to a supo researcher Veli-Pekka Kivimäki, the number of […]
President Niinistö: "This affects us all."
President Sauli Niinistö said on Sunday the psychotherapy center’s data breach is a particularly cruel crime. "This affects us all," Niinistö said. "Data is constantly collected from all of us on different platforms. It also affects us because we all have our own inner soul that we want to protect. Now it’s hurt." According to […]
President Niinistö condemns security breaches, thousands of victims file criminal complaints
President Sauli Niinistö said on Sunday the psychotherapy center’s data breach is a particularly cruel crime. "This affects us all," Niinistö said. "Data is constantly collected from all of us on different platforms. It also affects us because we all have our own inner soul that we want to protect. Now it’s hurt." According to […]
The leak reveals 799 Finns on the Chinese watch list
An extra leak has revealed 779 Finnish names on a watch list that the technology company has been said to be in close contact with the Chinese government. Data leaked from Zhenhua Data, a Shenzhen-based technology company, revealed a database that originally contained the personal information of 2.4 million influential people, a private citizen, and […]
