Privacy & Security
Master Your Passwords
Every month millions of people have their passwords stolen. Here we explain how to keep your passwords secure | Originally written for F-Secured - Your complete guide to online security in 2023 ...
Uncovering a long-lasting porn spam campaign on YouTube | (NSFW, maybe)
In December 2022 I stumbled upon an interesting YouTube comment-based campaign, which promoted a shady camgirl / porn website through a clever use of YouTube features. I screengrabbed some video evidence and ...
What are social media countermeasures?
As the guy who pretty much owns the #socialmediacountermeasures on Twitter, I figured it makes sense to give the term some proper definition beyond just 280 characters. In short, social media countermeasures ...
Everyman’s Cyber Defence
The following is my translation of “Jokamiehen kyberpuolustus”, Everyman’s Cyber Defence, a short snippet from publicly available document #kyberpuolustus : kyberkäsikirja Puolustusvoimien henkilöstölle (2019) by Laari, Flyktman, Härmä, Timonen and Tuovinen. Source ...
Social Media Countermeasures – Battling Long-Running Scams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
For the past few years, I’ve been documenting, screenshotting, and sharing examples of criminal campaigns on the three big social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I’m not that interested in speculating ...
What is Ransomware 3.0?
I believe there’s a pretty clear consensus within the industry that ransomware should not be mistaken anymore to limit itself to just encrypting files and demanding payment for a decryption key. Dubbed ...
Cyber Security in Gaming – Extensive Show Notes for KOVA Podcast X F-Secure
Recently I was invited to KOVA Esports podcast to talk about cyber security, online privacy and identity management from the perspective of gamers and gaming industry in general. Hosted by KOVA’s General ...
YouTube Channel Phishing, Part 2: The Enemy Evolves
Last year I took a first look at a phishing campaign that was interestingly targeting YouTube channel owners’ email addresses. The aim of the campaign was to guide people to fake YouTube ...
Wearables & Privacy – What You Need To Know
Continuing my seemingly never-ending quest of digging through privacy policies, this time I analyzed how the most popular wearables companies handle their customers’ data. Fitbit, Biostrap, Motiv, Oura and Whoop all are ...
“YouTube channel will be disabled within 24 hours!” Phishing Campaign First Look
During past few months I’ve witnessed and been targeted by rather simple, but still interesting phishing campaign. Well, not me personally, but instead a YouTube channel that I run. This campaign has ...
