Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
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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 a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.
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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 know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.
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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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I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad.
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These will only get reported when people get home from work, and it will take awhile before they figure out who to call.
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The situation on the Internet right now is so bad that if you go and buy a brand new computer and turn it on and plug it into the Internet, it will be infected by a worm within five to ten minutes,
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The worm can spread quite well once it finds its way beyond corporate firewalls.
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Right now, the situation is bad, but it could be much worse. The potential for problems is bigger than we have ever seen. We estimate 99 percent of computers worldwide are vulnerable to this attack.
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Everything would look fairly convincing if they did some surfing to check out the site before clicking on the link. But they would still get burned.
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The target is fooled into logging into a fake bank, where they ask for his authorization code. The fake bank logs into the real bank with the one-time password and moves money around. Then it gets back to the customer, says there has been a problem and asks him to give the next code.
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Everybody would like to see the patch as soon as possible, but I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to test it thoroughly. However, if a widespread worm is found before next Tuesday, I do believe they will break the cycle and just release the patch.
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As the virus is not new it's 2 years old this could only have happened if those testing computers were not running any anti-virus programs,
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At the moment we are not aware of any attacks that would have used this vulnerability.
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It all comes down to whether the code ends up being shared or not. We have not seen it out on the Internet yet.