• DocumentCode
    1007601
  • Title

    Silver Bullet Talks with Mikko Hypponen [Interview]

  • Author

    McGraw, Gary

  • Author_Institution
    Cigital
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Mikko Hyppönen is the chief research officer for F-Secure where he has worked since 1991 as an active malicious code researcher. Hyppönen and his team have done prominent work against the Sobig.F, Sasser, and Zotob worms. He\´s also been active in the discovery of malicious code used for "good," such as Sony\´s infamous digital rights management rootkit. Featured here is an excerpt adapted from the full interview.
  • Keywords
    Asia; Computer security; Computer worms; Digital audio broadcasting; Europe; Mobile handsets; Silver; Smart phones; World Wide Web; Writing; Mikko Hyppönen; interview; silver bullet; worms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2007.177
  • Filename
    4402439