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F-Secure's enterprise-facing business will have a new brand - WithSecure - and a sharpened focus when the company splits into two independent operations. The move comes a month after the security vendor's board of directors revealed that the 34-year-old Helsinki-based company would carve out the consumer security business from its enterprise unit.

Security researchers found a vulnerability in a home test for COVID-19 that a bad actor could use to change test results from positive to negative or vice versa. Here's how the test works: A user downloads an app, answers a few screening questions, watches an informational video and then performs the test.

While it's important to engage incident response during a cyber security incident, F-Secure Consulting's global incident response offerings put equal emphasis on readiness as a strategy for mitigating the risk of cyber attacks. In the last 12 months, F-Secure Consulting responded to dozens of major security incidents for organizations across the globe.

F-Secure launched F-Secure Elements: a new cloud-based platform that streamlines how organizations provision cyber security services. Available from F-Secure's service partners with fixed-term license subscriptions, or usage-based billing for greater flexibility, F-Secure Elements empowers organizations to pick cyber security services on terms that accommodate their needs.

Infosec biz F-Secure has uncovered a North Korean phishing campaign that targeted a sysadmin with a fake Linkedin job advert using a General Data Protection Regulation themed lure. The sysadmin worked for a cryptocurrency business, said the threat intel firm, which made him a ripe target for the money-hungry state hackers Lazarus Group, aka APT38, supposedly backed by North Korea.

A vulnerability addressed by F-Secure in some of its business products could have been exploited to bypass their scanning engine using malformed archives. The patched issue is actually over a decade old - it was initially detailed in 2009 by security researcher Thierry Zoller - and resides in an anti-virus application's inability to scan a compressed archive that a user can access.

Zyxel Communications, a leading provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access and connected home products, announced it has teamed up with F-Secure to integrate the company’s...

F-Secure has on 18 June 2018 signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of MWR InfoSecurity, a privately held cyber security company operating globally from its main offices in the...

F-Secure has signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of MWR InfoSecurity, a privately held cyber security company operating globally from its main offices in the UK, the US,...

Finland-based F-Secure announced on Monday that it has entered an agreement to acquire cybersecurity consultancy MWR InfoSecurity for over €91.6 million ($106 million) in cash and the promise of a...