Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hypponen
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönenis a computer security expert and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
attack computer hours online sleeping target
There is no need to have your computer online 24 hours (a day) as a target of an attack when you are sleeping or away from your computer.
bad design needed
This was not a bug; this was something that was needed at the time. It is just bad design, design from another era.
costs invest large lots means pay product security works
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.
infected
But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone.
awhile figure home people reported
These will only get reported when people get home from work, and it will take awhile before they figure out who to call.
mac people run software using
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.
avoided boot cleaned computers everybody happen home machines majority people problem until vast work
(The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We'd like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that's probably not true.
computers happened running testing virus
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,
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.
infection worst
It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.
viruses worked year
I've worked with viruses for 15 years and things have been getting progressively worse. This year is going to be bad.
actively attack block everybody involved knows later lay likely low malicious might rather virus writer
There might be no attack at all. As everybody knows about the attack, the virus writer may lay low and attack at a later date. The ISPs involved can actively block malicious postings. It's more likely the attacker will lay low or be blocked, rather than succeed.
file love names people quite realistic saw sends social uses
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.
privacy internet discussion
Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.