Abstract:

In this up-to-the-minute presentation Mikko Hypponen will cover in the detail the latest major virus case to hit the internet - what exactly happened, how did the virus operate, what kind of effects did it have to the net - and how well did we fight it?

As the virus was not yet known when we went to press, the final content of thispresentation will be prepared right before - or during ? the AVAR2004 conference, and the material and slidesets are available to conference delegates via http://www.hypponen.com/avar/

Biography:

Mikko Hypponen works as Director of Anti-Virus Research at the F-Secure Corp. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991.
Mr. Hypponen led the team that infiltrated the Slapper worm attack network in 2002, took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm in 2003 and was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak in 2004.
Mr. Hypponen often consults data security issues to large organizations both in private and public sectors, including several military organizations in various countries. He has presented papers in many high-profile conferences, including Virus Bulletin, EICAR, AVAR, First Tuesday, Rubicon, AFCEA and IIR.
He has been the subject of dozens of interviews with media outlets such as BBC, NBC, CNN and CNBC. He has also been interviewed by Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Wired, New York Times and Newsweek. In addition to his other duties, he has co-authored two books and filed several patent applications.
Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, has been an invited member of CARO (the Computer Anti-Virus Researchers Organization) since 1995.
Apart from computer security issues, Mr. Hypponen enjoys collecting and restoring classic arcade video games and pinball machines from past decades. He lives with his family, and a small moose community, in an island near Helsinki.

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