Mikko Hyppönen
| Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen | |
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 Speaking at the TEDxRotterdam conference in 2011 |
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| Nationality | Finnish |
| Other names | Mikko Hypponen |
| Occupation | Chief Research Officer for F-Secure |
| Awards |
Virus Bulletin Award[1] #61 Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011[2] #43 on the 50 Most Important People on the Web 2007 list by PC World[3] |
| Website | |
| http://mikko.hypponen.com/ | |
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist.
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[edit] Career
Mikko Hyppönen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991.[1]
Since the 1990s, Hyppönen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime.[4] His team has been responsible for taking down the Sobig.F botnet.[5]
Hyppönen has keynoted or spoken at various conferences around the world, including RSA, Black Hat and DEF CON. In addition to data security events, Hyppönen has delivered talks at general-interest events, such as TED, TEDx, SXSW and Google Zeitgeist. He's also spoken at various military events, including AFCEA events and the NATO CCD COE's ICCC. Hyppönen is a reserve officer in the Finnish Army.[6]
Hyppönen has been a member of the Advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Professor Fred Piper and John Thompson.[7]
Hyppönen is a columnist for BetaNews. He has also written on his research for CNN.
In 2011, he was ranked 61st in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers report.[8]
[edit] Computer security history
Hyppönen made international news in 2011[9] when he tracked down and visited the authors of the first PC virus in history, Brain.A. Hyppönen produced a documentary of the event. The documentary is viewable on YouTube.[10]
Hyppönen has also been documenting the raise of mobile phone malware since the first smartphone viruses were found.[11]
The blog "News from the Lab", started by Hyppönen in 2004 was the first blog from any antivirus company.[12]
[edit] Controversy on Twitter
Hyppönen has been very active on Twitter.[13] However, his account was banned by Twitter administrators in October 2009 and all his followers were removed.[14] This was because Hyppönen had posted a Tweet with a link to a phishing site. After several days, he regained access to his account.[15] Despite these problems, Hypponen is credited by Twitter for improving Twitter's security.[16]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "short bio". http://mikko.hypponen.com/bio.htm.
- ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,40#thinker61.
- ^ "50 Most Important People on the Web". March 5, 2007. http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129301/printable.html.
- ^ "Mikko Hypponen background at TEDxRotterdam". http://www.tedxrdam.nl/performers/mikko-hypponen/.
- ^ "TED profile". http://www.ted.com/speakers/mikko_hypponen.html.
- ^ "The Finnish Defence Forces Annual Report 2010". http://www.puolustusvoimat.fi/wcm/7de7de0047678fdb9215baf9f59cc682/pv_vsk2010_net_eng.pdf?MOD=AJPERES#page=13.
- ^ "List of the members of the advisory board of IMPACT". http://www.impact-alliance.org/aboutus/profile-of-IAB-members.html.
- ^ Foreign Policy. The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. December 2011.
- ^ "USA Today – Documentary examines the inception of PC viruses 25 years ago". http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/03/documentary-examines-the-inception-of-pc-viruses-25-years-ago/1.
- ^ "YoutTube – Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0.
- ^ "Scientific American – Malware Goes Mobile". http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Malware_Goes_Mobile.pdf.
- ^ "First antivirus blog in the world". http://malware.wikia.com/wiki/F-Secure.
- ^ "Twitter account @mikko". http://twitter.com/mikko.
- ^ "ZDNet – Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat". http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/twitter-suspends-security-researchers-account-as-a-threat/6327.
- ^ "Webuser – Twitter ban for security expert". http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/400464/twitter-ban-for-security-expert.
- ^ "The following people have helped us keep Twitter safe for everyone. We very much appreciate their efforts.". https://twitter.com/about/security.
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