Abstract :
Mikko Hyppönen is the chief research officer for F-Secure where he has worked since 1991 as an active malicious code researcher. Hyppönen and his team have done prominent work against the Sobig.F, Sasser, and Zotob worms. He\´s also been active in the discovery of malicious code used for "good," such as Sony\´s infamous digital rights management rootkit. Featured here is an excerpt adapted from the full interview.