| 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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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]
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]
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]