We at F-Secure would like to wish a happy holiday to all who celebrate the season.
To bring us some cheer, Karolina (shown here with her son), an F-Secure fellow from Poland, created this precious little Easter chick (click here to download it). We especially like it as it celebrates some of F-Secure’s successes over the last few years.
It’s a free, fun project to share with your family.
The best to you and yours,
Anna
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Congratulations to our winner, Earl.
For years, analysts predicted that all of our devices — PCs, laptops, DVD players, mobile phones — would merge into one all-purpose device that would handle everything we do digitally. Surprisingly we are seeing more and more that people are actually travelling with up to three devices — a phone, a tablet and a laptop. All three perform similar functions but provide vastly different experiences.
We’ve discussed the proper way to secure all your devices. So now we have a question for you: For mobile connections, do you use a tablet a mobile phone or both?
By answering this question in the comments below, you’ll be entered to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with F-Secure Mobile Security.
Just read the rules and post your answer in the comments below.
BONUS ENTRY: Want an extra chance to win? Click here and take our quick mobile survey then post the comment “SURVEY COMPLETED” in an ADDITIONAL comment below.
Thanks for your time,
Anna
F-Secure Internet Security 2012
MORE THAN MOBILE SWEEPSTAKES – COMPETITION RULES AND PRIZES
By entering the Safer Shopping Sweepstakes promotion you accept the Official Competition Rules and the Privacy Policy (http://www.f-secure.com/en_US/privacy.html).
If you do not accept these rules, please do not enter this promotion.
1. The sponsor of this promotion is F-Secure Corporation, located at Tammasaarenkatu 7, Po. Box 24, 00181 Helsinki, Finland (“Sponsor”).
2. The promotion will begin at 12:00 PM PDT on April 3 , 2012 and end at 12:00 PM PDT April 19, 2012.
3. This promotion is void where prohibited or restricted by law. No purchase is necessary to enter.
4. 2 prizes — Samsung Galaxy 10.1 16 GB with a retail value of $449.99 and 1 F-Secure Mobile Security with a retail value of $39.99 — will be given as prizes in this promotion at the close of the competition.
5. Only two (2) entries per person per Sweepstakes will be accepted. Each comment posted constitutes an entry. Further attempts made by the same person and entries generated by a script, computer programs, macro, programmed, robotic or other automated means will be disqualified.
6. The winner will be chosen randomly from the people who participated in the competition by commenting on the “More Than Mobile Sweepstakes” page. Sponsor will notify the winner via email. If the winner does not respond within seven (7) days, he or she will forfeit the prize and another winner will be randomly chosen. This prize is shipped to the winner within 45 days of the making successful contact with the winner.
7. The winners are responsible for any taxes associated with receipt of the prizes. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prizes with other prizes of equal or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason.
8. Odds of winning the prizes depend upon the total number of eligible entries received.
9. No purchase or software download is necessary to enter or win. Purchase or software download will not increase your chances of winning.
10. To enter, visit http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2012/04/03/more-than-mobile-sweepstakes/ and comment on the post up to two times. To comment you must provide your email address, which will not be made public. Entries are the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Comments made be edited by F-Secure without explanation. We are not responsible for the content posted or linked.
11. Any entrant who attempts to cheat or tamper with the More Than Mobile Sweepstakes shall be disqualified by the Sponsor’s sole discretion.
12. The name of the winner will be announced via the F-Secure Twitter channel http://twitter.com/FSecure, F-Secure Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FSecure and F-Secure’s Safe and Savvy blog http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/ once the winner has been contacted. By entering, the entrant agrees that his/her name, country and/or picture can be published at F-Secure’s aforementioned channels if he/she wins.
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Ending a prank that must have been years in the planning, Facebook has announced that its so-called “Timeline” profile is an elaborate hoax. In a note on his Facebook profile, Zach Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Chief Profile Officer (CPO), announced that the switch to the Timeline was an April Fools’ Day joke that got out of hand.
“We never expected anyone to believe that we’d risk alienating our user base in the midst of our company’s IPO. But when we laid the seeds for what we hoped would become a legendary April Fool’s six months ago, many people ate them right up.”
During the first stages of the so-called Timeline, thousands of people signed up as Facebook developers just to play with the new look.
“We thought then, we better come up with something operational, just to keep it going. Then it just kept snowballing and snowballing till today.”
Facebook says that those who have opted into the new look will be allowed to keep it. The rollback will begin at the end of business April 1.
“When people and companies started uploading content from their entire lives, at first we were worried,” Zuckerberg wrote. “We were sure no one would do that. Then analysts saw this further proof of the site’s stickiness. The FTC actually complimented us for once on the privacy measures. At the end of the day, someone should have ended this thing months ago. But here we are on April 1.”
Many Facebook members are cheering the news. Others are smirking. Several of the 45,567 members of the “Timeline Must GO AWAY” Facebook group announced that they had never really believed it was coming. “H8ers can H8 but I was right,” said user Maggie Simpson.
We at F-Secure had taken the Timeline extremely seriously offering “4 Things You Should Do as Soon as You Get Your New Timeline”.
We’ll now add a fifth thing to the list: Blush.
Cheers,
Jason
Did you know that it takes 140 liters of water to produce a cup of coffee, 170 liters of water to produce a glass of orange juice, 70 liters of water for an apple. All that water just for one breakfast.
Are we letting our ecological footprint grow out of control? What kind of planet we want leave to the next generations?
A warming planet alters weather patterns, water accessibility and food suplies. It also threatens a sustainable way of life for us and the world’s wildlife. At F-Secure, we believe it’s our responsibility to leave our children and their children an environment where they can thrive.
Earth Hour is a global call to action for individuals, businesses and governments around the world to unite against the climate change.
F-Secure will participate in this weekend’s Earth Hour movement. All of the lights in our Helsinki headquarters will be turned off between 20.30 and 21.30 local time on Saturday evening. It’s a small step but an important reminder that we can all do our part individually and together.
We invite you to join Earth Hour to help protect the irreplaceable earth we all share.
This earth will grow cold,
a star among stars
and one of the smallest,
a gilded mote on blue velvet
I mean this, our great earth.
This earth will grow cold one day,
not like a block of ice
or a dead cloud even
but like an empty walnut it will roll along
in pitch-black space …
You must grieve for this right now
–you have to feel this sorrow now–
for the world must be loved this much
if you’re going to say “I lived” …
-Nazim Hikmet
Cheers,
Ulla
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Mac Users: Update, Disable or Remove Your Java
By Jason
We know that one of the big reasons your or your loved ones got a Mac is because you didn’t want to worry about viruses, malware or other technical time wasters. Unfortunately, the Mac Flashback trojan may have infected over 500,000 Apple computers and is attempting to use these computers to generate email spam and more.
F-Secure Labs has laid out the steps to detect and, if necessary, remove the trojan. Advanced users should do that now. Start at step 1.
To prevent further infections, F-Secure Labs recommends all Mac users update, disable or remove their Java client plugin/installation. (Windows users, too. Actually. But for once, we’ll make this post almost entirely about Mac malware.)
How to Update or Disable Your Java in Mac OSX
Update
1. Go to the Apple in the upper left-hand corner.
2. Select “Software Update” from the menu.
3. The program will check for new software.
4. Update all of your software including Java.
Disable
Snow Leopard (Lion doesn’t come with Java by default)
1. In Finder, go to “Applications” folder.
2. From “Applications” go to “Utilities” to “Java Preferences”.
3. Uncheck everything in the General tab.
Safari
1. Open Safari.
2. From the Safari menu, select “Security”.
3. Uncheck “Enable Java”.
Chrome
1. Input the address “chrome://plugins“ into Chrome’s address bar.
2. Scroll down to “Java”
3. Click “Disable” for any instance of Java you see.
4. Use the same procedure to start using Java again, just click “Enable”.
Cheers,
Jason