Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (/mɪkˈkɒ hɪpˈpənɛn/; born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist. Read full biography of Mikko Hypponen →
Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting... →
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like... →
In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample... →
It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact... →
It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they... →
Many of the more devastating cyber attacks cannot be launched remotely, as the most critical networks are not connected to public network. Think... →
Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their... →
One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something... →
The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can't protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging... →
I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
Defending against military-strength malware is a real challenge for the computer security industry. Furthermore, the security industry is not global.... →
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (/mɪkˈkɒ hɪpˈpənɛn/; born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist.