Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (/mɪkˈkɒ hɪpˈpənɛn/; born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist. Read full biography of Mikko Hypponen →
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and... →
I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running... →
It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really... →
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts... →
Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as... →
There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten... →
Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having... →
We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes... →
How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.
It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would... →
Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with... →
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (/mɪkˈkɒ hɪpˈpənɛn/; born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist.