Mikko Hyppönen

Mikko Hyppönen
Born Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen
(1969-10-13) October 13, 1969[1]
Nationality Finnish
Other names Mikko Hypponen
Occupation Chief Research Officer for F-Secure
Awards

Virus Bulletin Award for Best educator in the anti-malware industry 2010[2][3]

#61 Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011[4]

#43 on the 50 Most Important People on the Web 2007 list by PC World[5]
Website Mikko.Hypponen.com
Mikko Hyppönen introducing himself
recorded May 2016

Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (Finnish pronunciation: ['mik:o 'hyp:ønen]; born October 13, 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist.

Career

Mikko Hyppönen is Chief Research Officer at F-Secure. He has worked at F-Secure in Finland since 1991.[3]

Hyppönen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia since the 1990s on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime.[6] His team took down the Sobig.F botnet.[7]

In 2004, Hyppönen cooperated with Vanity Fair on a feature, The Code Warrior, which examined his role in the Blaster and Sobig Computer worms.[8]

Hyppönen has given keynotes and presentations at a number of conferences around the world, including Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD,[9] and RSA. In addition to data security events, Hyppönen has delivered talks at general-interest events, such as TED, TEDx, DLD, 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.[10]

Hyppönen is a member of the advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Hamadoun Touré, Fred Piper and John Thompson.[11]

Hyppönen is a columnist for BetaNews and Wired.[12] He has also written on his research for CNN, The New York Times[13] and Scientific American.[14]

In 2011, he was ranked 61st in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers report.[15]

The two greatest tools of our time have been turned into government surveillance tools. I'm talking about the mobile phone and the internet. George Orwell was an optimist.
— Hyppönen on the PRISM surveillance in 2013[16]

Computer security history

Hyppönen made international news in 2011[17][18] 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 was published on YouTube.[19]

Hyppönen has also been documenting the rise of mobile phone malware since the first smartphone viruses were found.[20]

The blog "News from the Lab", started by Hyppönen in 2004 was the first blog from any antivirus company.

Hyppönen has been credited by Twitter for improving Twitter's security.[21]

Mr. Hyppönen has been the Curator for the Malware Museum at The Internet Archive since 2016.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mikko Hyppönen interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
  2. ↑ Helen Martin (November 2010). "Conference report, Vancouver expedition" (PDF). pp. 6–7. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  3. 1 2 "short bio".
  4. ↑ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers".
  5. ↑ "50 Most Important People on the Web". March 5, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Mikko Hypponen background at TEDxRotterdam".
  7. ↑ "TED profile".
  8. ↑ Shnayerson, Michael (January 2004). "The Code Warrior". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  9. ↑ "Mikko Hypponen: Behind Enemy Lines (Hack In The Box Security Conference 2012)".
  10. ↑ "The Finnish Defence Forces Annual Report 2010" (PDF).
  11. ↑ "List of the members of the advisory board of IMPACT".
  12. ↑ "Wired Columns by Mikko Hypponen". 2012-06-01.
  13. ↑ Mikko Hyppönnen (2012-06-05). "A Pandora's Box We Will Regret Opening".
  14. ↑ "Articles by Mikko Hyppönen". Scientific American.
  15. ↑ Foreign Policy. The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. December 2011.
  16. ↑ GCHQ and NSA outsourcing cyber security tasks to third-party vendors V3.co.uk, 2013
  17. ↑ "USA Today – Documentary examines the inception of PC viruses 25 years ago". 2011-03-08.
  18. ↑ "Fighting viruses, defending the net". TED.
  19. ↑ "YoutTube – Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan".
  20. ↑ "Scientific American – Malware Goes Mobile" (PDF).
  21. ↑ "Twitter Security – The following people have helped us keep Twitter safe for everyone. We very much appreciate their efforts.". Archived from the original on 2014-07-10.
  22. ↑ "The Malware Museum".
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