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Experts unconcerned by imminent Sober attack
News Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure. You should just block the problem URLs," said Hyppönen. Mark Toshack, manager of antivirus operations at MessageLabs, agreed with Hyppönen. Mikko's absolutely spot on.
[January 4, 2006, 13:15]
Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hack
News In an email interview, ZDNet UK's sister site in Australia, ZDNet.com.au, asked renowned security researcher Mikko Hyppönen about the pros and cons of law enforcement using hacking techniques to fight crime.
[March 17, 2009, 16:06]
Zotob suspects linked to underground network
News Finnish antivirus expert Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, claimed in a blog posting on Monday that a virus writer nicknamed "Diabl0", who is believed to have been behind last week's virus outbreaks, had used the 0x90...
[August 30, 2005, 16:55]
Symbian phones targeted by 'Skulls' Trojan
News The program, dubbed "Skulls" by antivirus companies, is disguised as a theme manager for Nokia phones in the Symbian Installation System format, said Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research for software maker F-Secure.
[November 22, 2004, 8:05]
Windows Vista tool targeted by virus writers
News Five proof-of-concept viruses that target Monad, the next version of Microsoft's command prompt, were included in a recently published virus writing magazine, according to Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure.
[August 4, 2005, 16:25]
Bagle.AT virus is no joke
News We've had several reports all over the world," said director of antivirus research for F-Secure Mikko Hyppönen. Hyppönen added that the virus currently beats antivirus products, so users would need to update their computers.
[October 29, 2004, 12:44]
Virus writers get stealthy
News Malware authors, many of whom now use viruses as a way of making money, are regularly testing their viruses against antivirus packages, said Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure.
[March 18, 2005, 14:20]
Bagle eats Netsky as the worm turns
News Finnish security company F-Secure's Mikko Hyppönen told ZDNet UK that Bagle has never before retaliated with anything but insults: "This is the first time Bagle has retaliated and tried to hit back by removing the Netsky worm," he said.
[March 16, 2004, 16:35]
Windows XP SP2 may stop the worms
News It will be hard to attack Windows XP via automated network worms," said Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure. Of course, the latest upgrade to Windows is not a complete cure for all of its security ills, says Hyppönen.
[August 9, 2004, 15:35]
Sober worm poised to strike again
News The possible outbreak could be stopped, said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at Finnish antivirus company F-Secure. These free Web site hosters should be able to block those specific URLs this virus is trying to download from in January, so...
[December 8, 2005, 9:00]
CommWarrior guns for Nokias
News At its best replication speed, Cabir can only spread as quickly as planes fly," said Mikko Hyppönen, antivirus research director at Finland-based F-Secure. CommWarrior has been seen in the wild since the beginning of this year, Hyppönen said.
[March 8, 2005, 8:00]
Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack
News Users can reduce the risk of being infected by exercising caution, said Mikko Hyppönen, the director of antivirus research at F-Secure. Be careful about what you download and where you download it from," said Hyppönen.
[January 6, 2005, 15:50]
Malware's next trick
News We are seeing less of the big virus outbreaks such as Sasser and Blaster, and so some people believe the situation is getting better, when in fact it is getting worse," said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at security company F-Secure.
[April 18, 2006, 16:40]
All quiet on the Nyxem front
News We won't really hear until next week," said Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure. One multinational company based in America had tens of thousands of PCs infected, and they might not even boot up their systems at all today...
[February 3, 2006, 12:05]
Security expert voices virtualisation concerns
News Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer for security specialist F-Secure, claims virtualisation technology will have its own specific security threats.
[April 23, 2008, 15:45]
Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered
Talkback This article by Ingrid Marson and the opinions of the analysts (Mikko Hyppönen, David Emm) are perfect samples of spoofing and being spoofy. Webster & Dictionary.com should use them as examples. Thanks but no thanks for the information.
[January 5, 2005, 17:53]
Worm warfare rages on
News Signs of a turf war between cybercriminals lie in the behaviour of the worms that have emerged since Sunday, said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure. But some versions undo the effects of earlier worms, suggesting that...
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
Sober worm goes into hibernation
News Sober monitors certain URLs," said Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure. Hyppönen said the worm did not have an in-built mechanism to stop spreading it on Tuesday. The Sober.P worm stopped spreading across the Internet on...
[May 13, 2005, 12:30]
Microsoft starts frantic bug hunt
News When WMF files were designed in the late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain computer code that could be executed on a PC, said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at Finnish security company F-Secure.
[January 10, 2006, 8:10]
Security experts spot holes in Twitter malware filter
News Twitter's filtering mechanism was highlighted by Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer of F-Secure, in a blog post on Monday. Twitter's latest security measure was a positive one, especially in light of the current threats directed at the site...
[August 5, 2009, 9:14]
