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SUMMARY:Silicon Plagues - Mikko H Hypponen\, CRO F-Secure & columnist
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nThe real world isn't like the online world.\n\nIn 
 the real world\, you only have to worry about the criminals who live in yo
 ur city. But in the online world\, you have to worry about criminals who c
 ould be on the other side of the planet. Online crime is always internatio
 nal because the Internet has no borders.\n\nToday computer viruses and oth
 er malicious software are no longer written by hobbyist hackers seeking fa
 me and glory among their peers. Most of them are written by professional c
 riminals who are making millions with their attacks. These criminals want 
 access to your computer\, your passwords\, and your credit card numbers.\n
 \nNational police forces and legal systems are finding it extremely diffic
 ult to keep up with the rapid growth of online crime. They have limited re
 sources and expertise to investigate online criminal activity. The victims
 \, police\, prosecutors\, and judges rarely uncover the full scope of the 
 crimes that often take place across international boundaries. Action again
 st the criminals is too slow\, the arrests are few and far between\, and t
 oo often the penalties are very light\, especially compared with those att
 ached to real-world crimes.\n\nBecause of the low prioritization for prose
 cuting cybercriminals and the delays in launching effective cybercrime pen
 alties\, we are thereby sending the wrong message to the criminals and tha
 t's why online crime is growing so fast. Right now would-be online crimina
 ls can see that the likelihood of their getting caught and punished is van
 ishingly small\, yet the profits are great.\n\nComputer security has gone 
 several distinct eras. Attacks morph and change every few years. However\,
  the biggest changes we've seen have not been technical. They've been soci
 al. It's all about the attackers and their motives.\n\nIf we want to be ab
 le to stop the attacks\, we have to understand who the attackers are.\n\nB
 iography\n\nMikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure in Fi
 nland. He has been working with computer security for over 20 years and ha
 s fought the biggest virus outbreaks in the net\, including Loveletter\, C
 onficker and Stuxnet. His TED Talk on computer security has been seen by a
 lmost a million people and has been translated to over 35 languages. He ha
 s addressed the EU Parliament and his columns have been published in the N
 ew York Times\, Wired\, CNN and BBC. Mr. Hypponen was selected among the 5
 0 most important people on the web in by the PC World magazine. The Foreig
 n Policy magazine included him on the list of "Top 100 Global Thinkers". M
 r. Hypponen sits in the advisory boards of the ISF and the Lifeboat founda
 tion.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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