TED Community » Mikko Hypponen

More About Me

I'm passionate about

Catching organized online criminals.

An idea worth spreading

Creating "internetpol" - ie. interpol for internet.

Talk to me about

Atari et al.

People don't know that I'm good at

...doing my own stunts.

My TED Story

I remember sitting down in TED 2009 in Long Beach to watch a talk. The guy sitting next to me had longer hair and beard. We started talking. Turns out he was Matt Groening. Only in TED.

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• A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

  Mar 14 2012: Thank You.

• A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Jan 29 2012: This incident was about a man from St. Petersburg, Russia who had worked for a local security company called Agnitum before starting his criminal botnet operations.
  
  While unfortunate, it's not a case of "antivirus companies writing viruses", is it?
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  A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

  Jan 19 2012: My TEDxBrussels talk is shown in it's entirety. It was a ½ TED Talk, so 9 minutes.
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  A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

  Jan 18 2012: Turns out, most people passing laws do not even read the laws they are passing.

• A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Jan 16 2012: Zoomit is excellent. Developed by http://twitter.com/markrussinovich originally for Sysinternals and now for Microsoft.

• A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Aug 7 2011: Hey, thanks! I guess...

• A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Aug 7 2011: Actually, for F-Secure.
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  A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Jul 23 2011: Please sign up as a TED Translator and you can do it right away! No need to ask from me...
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  A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Jul 22 2011: Hi there; indeed I'd love to discuss these points further in another venue.
  
  And I agree that TED's time limit is both a curse and a blessing - but in the end, this format is one of the reasons that has made TED as great as it is.
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  A reply on Talk: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

  Jul 20 2011: Indeed. The current teenagers have no idea of what life was like before google.