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F-Secure Third Security Firm to Be Hacked

by Kaiser Hwang on February 19, 2009 at 07:20 AM


If you're a company that specializes in online security and anti-virus solutions, here's a tip: Make sure your Web site doesn't get hacked. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened to security firm F-Secure's Web site last week. The same hacker also hit the sites of Russian firm Kaspersky, and the Portugal-based BitDefender -- all within a week, and all using the same method.

While no sensitive data was retrieved, and excuses were made (hey, it's just a low-level server with only statistical marketing data!), at least F-Secure owns up to it: "It is slightly embarrassing as a security company that we have had the breach," David Frazer, a spokesman for F-Secure, told CNET. "We certainly, as a security company, want to ensure that all of our servers are patched to the levels that they should be."

Even if no personal or sensitive data was stolen, there's the issue of face here. Who wants to trust a security company that can't keep their own site secure? It's all about image and perception, and frankly, people will likely see this breach as worse than it actually is. [From: CNET]

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Tags: cyber crime, CyberCrime, hack, security, security breach, SecurityBreach

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