Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
bent change evolution financial gangs operated virus
The most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain.
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Companies should make sure that their patch procedures extend to all applications, including security and backup programs.
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I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.
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Otherwise, it's totally new code. But there's a common idea,
government laws planet quite restrict restricted supposed
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
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If systems administrators block these URLs at their gateways, it's not going to break anything.
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It's really quite clever, ... It uses realistic file names and sends those to people you know. It's social engineering, just like we saw with Love Letter.
accept phone spread user
Not one of these is able to spread by itself, always the user of the phone has to accept installing of the virus.
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If you invest in a security product and if you have a large company, it costs you a lot. And if it works perfectly, you have no problem, which means you don't see the product at all. You pay lots of money, but you don't see any results.
glad guy message stupid type
I'm glad the guy was stupid enough to get caught. If you have to write viruses, something like the type of message is not bad.
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If you run a Mac right now, you don't need antivirus. If you want to be safer, you should be using software that other people are not using.
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Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.
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This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.
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The latest variants of Bozori even remove competing viruses like Zotob from the infected machines.