88 Quotes by Mikko Hypponen

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.

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.

The most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain.

Companies should make sure that their patch procedures extend to all applications, including security and backup programs.

Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.

A large company would not want somebody entering their premises with an infected phone because they could easily infect the entire company's phones.

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

This is enough to invoke the exploit and infect the machine.

Although the WMF bug is there (in the older versions), there's no known code at the moment to exploit it.