Researcher and a best-selling author. Keynote talks at RSA, Black Hat & DEF CON. TED Speaker. Chief Research Officer at Sensofusion.
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iPhone is 10 years old today. After 10 years, not a single serious malware case. It's not just luck; we need to congratulate Apple on this.
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Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows.
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How much is your data worth? So much that Google just paid Apple $9 billion to be the default search engine in the iPhone.
$9 billion, to get people to use a ’FREE’ search.
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane. Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled **30 years ago** (18 Aug 93).
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Public message to ransomware gangs: Stay the f away from medical organizations. If you target hospital computer systems during the pandemic, we will use all of our resources to hunt you down.
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The mankind’s knowledge lasted better when it was printed on paper.
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible.
pewresearch.org/data-labs/20…
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Today, I was scheduled to have an interview with a journalist. The topic was the recent growth in ransomware attacks. The interview was just cancelled, because the publishing company itself was hit with a ransomware attack.
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On this date 25 years ago: The first known MP3 rip of a song ('Until it sleeps' by Metallica) is released.
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Fun fact: CNN photoshopped a "Verified" ✸ tag next to my name when they showed my tweet.
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Photo taken in our lab 20 years ago. The two desktop computers on top left are locked and have tamper-proof seals. They were used for signing updates to our detection database. This room was behind 4 locked doors.
ALT Mikko sitting in a lab with cowboy boots.
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A Microsoft developer explains in a Reddit thread why Windows 10 is called Windows 10.
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How much is your data worth? So much that Google is paying Apple $15 billion to be the default search engine in the iPhone and other Apple devices.
Google is paying $10/year per device, to get you to use a 'free' search engine.
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Is it possible for us to work together to create a Twitter poll with zero votes?
32%
Yes
68%
No
11,090 votes • Final results
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Back in 1991, I joined a small startup as employee #6. The company was Data Fellows, and my role was to reverse-engineer viruses. Over time, Data Fellows became F-Secure and later split into F-Secure and WithSecure. For 34 years, I’ve been fighting malware.
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ALWAYS carry an extra finger with you so you can later claim that the photo is a deepfake.
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Reminder to everyone laughing about how Samsung and Apple killed Nokia: Nokia did not die. They sold the dying handset business to Microsoft for US$ 7 billion, and then bought Alcatel-Lucent. Now Nokia is one of the world’s largest telco infrastructure providers.
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How was Facebook scraped? Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook.
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Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.
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I found pictures that I took at DEF CON 2004. Let's see what Las Vegas looked like 20 years ago!
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I was a nervous 21-year old coder, sitting in a meeting with a big client. Turns out, I had forgotten my materials at our office. The client’s big boss was furious and told me to go get them right away. But I had no car. So the big boss lent his brand new Saab. I crashed it.
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Today is my 30th anniversary at F-Secure. My first day of employment was 1st of June, 1991.
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In the good old days, when you bought a game with money, you owned a copy of the game forever.
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When I was 16, my mother sat me down at the kitchen table.
She told me: "Mikko, go and study telecommunication: telecommunication is the future".
This was in 1987, years before mobile phones or the web.
That was a good call. Good call indeed.
Thanks mom.
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Message to #Vastaamo data breach victims:
Keräämme bitcoin-osoitteita, joihin Vastaamon lunnaita on maksettu. Yritämme jäljittää, mihin rahat menivät. Jos olet Vastaamon uhri *ja maksoit lunnaat*, arvostan jos otat minuun yhteyttä. Sähköpostiosoitteeni on profiilissani. Kiitos.
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Interesting research on creating synthetic fingerprints that can match a large number of real fingerprints. These would be Master Prints, just like we have Master Keys for locks. #GAN
arxiv.org/abs/1705.07386
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In 1996 there was an MS-DOS program called Multi-Pac, which could load the ROM files of Namco PAC-MAN and emulate the arcade game accurately. In February 1997, the name was changed to 'Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator'.
Congratulations on 25 years, MAME!
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Best question so far about my 1992 Nokia 101: "How can it be older than the web, if it has a separate button for the #hashtag?"
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Internet is getting older. This classic New Yorker cartoon by @plsteiner turned *25* today.
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«Investigators found that some US ballistic missile systems were not patched for computer vulnerabilities discovered in 1990»
Well, you don’t need to patch computers from 1990. None of the current botnets support hardware that old.
This is what we call Security by Antiquity.
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Privacy eyeglasses use reflective material to avoid surveillance cameras. kickstarter.com/projects/ref…
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The ALPHV ransomware group has posted a long message about MGM Resorts on their leak site.
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At an airport? Need a password for the Wi-Fi? Here you go.
google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…
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Facebook assures us that it’s important that your phone number was not stolen from Facebook by hacking. It was stolen by scraping.
The Facts on News Reports About Facebook Data about.fb.com/news/2021/04/fa…
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Apparently, the best way to make sure everybody follows international standards (such as the ISO standards) is to make sure the specifications are not available for free download.
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SMS turns 25 today. The first text message was sent on the 3rd of December, 1992.
Also, GSM SMS MSG is a palindrome.
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”X” stands for the Greek letter chi, the starting letter of Χριστός (Christos) in Greek. The use of the word "Xmas" in English can be traced to the year 1021. The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of ”Xmas” for ”Christmas” dates to year 1551. Merry Xmas!
Please and please, it is not Xmas it is Christmas. The word “Christ” is there for a reason don’t abuse it .. please!
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A malware attachement that uses MORSE CODE to bypass mail filters. teddit.net/r/sysadmin/commen… Via @Sarkies_Proxy
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On this date 20 years ago: The first known MP3 rip of a song ('Until it sleeps' by Metallica) is released.
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Saw this announcement at Brussels airport. I think I saw it also in Blade Runner, or Total Recall.
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Tip of the day: You can short-hand IP addresses by dropping the zeros.
Examples:
http://52.52
http://44.1
http://1.1
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Interesting point raised in a reddit thread:
Satoshi's original bitcoins are now a quantum canary. Once we see them moving, we’ll know that someone has a functioning advanced quantum computer. It's just too big a prize not to be the first thing you’d do with a quantum computer.
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Microsoft Excel turns 40 today. This is what Excel 1.0 looked like (it was only released on Macs).
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There’s a lot of Starlink satellites up there. satellitemap.space
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Highly unusual ransom case underway here in Finland: a private psychotherapy clinic was hacked, and the therapist notes for maybe even 40,000 patients were stolen. Now the attacker has emailed the victims, asking each for 200 € ransom in Bitcoin. #vastaamo
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Today is the 30th anniversary of our website. We had a website before Microsoft or Apple. And Google, Amazon and Wikipedia had not been founded yet.
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Some personal news: after many years at F-Secure, I'm now the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure!
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Me in Luxembourg:
⁃ I’m going to take the tram, how much do they cost?
⁃ They’re free.
⁃ Trams are free?
⁃ Yeah.
⁃ They must be in pretty bad shape if they can’t even charge for them…
Trams in Luxembourg:
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General: "So, how do we get Stuxnet 2 to Iran?"
Sergeant: "What if we infect one of our drones and then let them shoot it down?”
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Four years ago, a random guy had this sign up during a live ESPN TV show. People sent 23 Bitcoins to the address in the QR code, for fun. That's $230,000 today.
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Network Time Protocol (NTP) expresses time as 64 bit numbers. The first 32 bits are the number of seconds from January 1st 1900. The remaining 32 bits express the fraction of seconds. 32 bits = 4 billion seconds or about 136 years. On Februrary 7th 2036, at 6:28 it will overflow.
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Take a look at this IP address.
http://31.10.590
Before you tell me that it's invalid and won't work, try it.
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I was about to buy Twitter Blue to get the edit button, but then I learned I could only edit my own tweets.
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Impressive: Someone wrote a compiler which compiles cheats (for Counterstrike) to use Return-oriented programming, only executing code that is already present in the machine's memory. This is done to try to bypass anticheat engines. Seen at #t2infosec github.com/Speedi13/ROP-COMP…
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Google has a new search engine out, for searching for Datasets. toolbox.google.com/datasetse…
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Year 2020 was a leap year. Tomorrow is the 366th day of the year. So please remember to refrain from using Office 365 tomorrow.
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”TikTok is introducing Americans to a question that Europeans have struggled with for 20 years: a lot of your citizens might use an Internet platform created somewhere that doesn’t know or care about your laws or cultural attitudes and won’t turn up to a committee hearing.”
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