Speakers Mikko Hypponen: Cybersecurity expert
As computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What's the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it?
Why you should listen to him:
The chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland, Mikko Hypponen has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history. His team took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm. He was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak, and he has done classified briefings on the operation of the Stuxnet worm -- a hugely complex worm designed to sabotage Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.
As a few hundred million more Internet users join the web from India and China and elsewhere, and as governments and corporations become more sophisticated at using viruses as weapons, Hypponen asks, what's next? Who will be at the front defending the world’s networks from malicious software? His work offers a peek into the post-Stuxnet future.
He says: "It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans."
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"Hypponen believes that malware attacks will increasingly be directed at social networks."The Inquirer
Quotes by Mikko Hypponen
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“[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another — moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.”
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“Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.”
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Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
- 17:34 Posted: Jul 2011
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Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack
- 09:23 Posted: Jan 2012
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