mikkohypponen | 2 months ago | on: Brain: PC virus [audio]
Thanks man! There's also a physical copy of Brain.A on display in Helsinki at http://museumofmalware.art
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mikkohypponen | 6 months ago | on: Black Hat USA 2025 Keynote – Mikko Hypponen – Three Decades in Cybersecurit [video]
My long term life goal was to do a keynote in all three: DEF CON, RSA and Black Hat. With this talk, I reached that goal - on my last week of employment in the cybersecurity industry. I hope you liked the video.
-- Mikko
mikkohypponen | 7 months ago | on: DEF CON Talk: Building a Malware Museum [video]
From DEF CON 33 (August 2025)
mikkohypponen | 9 months ago | on: Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones
Can confirm.
mikkohypponen | 9 months ago | on: Mikko Hypponen Leaves Anti-Malware Industry to Fight Against Drones
Can confirm, am Hypponen.
More here: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/update/urn:li:activity:...
mikkohypponen | 1 year ago | on: How the NSA betrayed the trust – time to act – Mikko Hypponen (2013) [video]
AMA, am Hyppönen.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment
Can confirm.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: One.one.one.one
You can ping one.one.one.one and it resolves to 1.1.1.1.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks
If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Keynote: Robot vs. Robot – Mikko Hypponen [video]
I think it was pretty good.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: F-secure lab 20 years ago
Sorry about the cables.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Correct, it's a PE file.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Author here. I've been running Windows since 3.0 and I copy my old tool folders with me whenever I change machines or upgrade the OS. This GZIP.EXE is the oldest EXE I have in my \ntbin tool folder that still works. The folder has 579 EXE files.
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago
Some stuff works fine. See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692552661374005450
mikkohypponen | 2 years ago | on: TROOPERS23: Keynote – Mikko Hyppönen
Troopers is a great event. In the beginning of my talk, I'm referring to a photo the organizers showed just before my talk. This is the photo: https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1686039840788299777
mikkohypponen | 3 years ago | on: I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag (1993)
How are going to find similar, historic one-offs that are made today, in 30 years time? Today they are made on Slack, Discord and Signal. No archive.
mikkohypponen | 3 years ago | on: 30 years ago; Marc Andreessen proposed the <img> HTML tag
This turned out to be a useful change.
mikkohypponen | 3 years ago | on: Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
Chapter from my book, about Case Vastaamo: https://ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com/s/vastaamo_excerpt.pdf
mikkohypponen | 3 years ago | on: Fornite maker Epic Games settles child privacy, 'dark patterns' cases for $520B
Abbreviating ’MILLION’ is hard.
See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1221011227066929155
mikkohypponen | 3 years ago | on: Vitali Klitschko fake tricks Berlin mayor in video call
But was it a deepfake or not? This is unprecedented if it was.
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