F-Secure Corporation today announced that Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, will deliver the keynote presentation at the HITBSecConf security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He will speak on Thursday, September 29th at The Westin Kuala Lumpur hotel.

HITBSecConf is known as the best computer security conference in Asia. Past and future speakers in the conference include Captain Crunch, Bruce Schneier, Tony Chor (Microsoft), Marius Eriksen (Google), Joanna Rutkowska, The Grugq, Paul Mcnabb, Adam Gowdiak, Job De Haas, LSD, HD Moore, San (X-Focus), Roberto Preatoni and Theo De Raadt.

“I’m honoured to be invited as the keynote speaker for HITBSecConf 2005″, says Mikko Hypponen. “And I can’t recommend this conference highly enough for anybody who wants the latest deep-down technical knowledge on computer security issues”.

Mr. Hypponen’s presentation, titled “Mobile Malware” will discuss the current situation with mobile phone viruses. The first real viruses infecting mobile phones were found during late 2004. Since then, dozens of different viruses and Trojans - including cases like Commwarrior, Lasco and Skulls - have been found. Mobile phone viruses use totally new spreading vectors such as Multimedia messages and Bluetooth. How exactly do these mobile viruses work?

Virus writers have always been trying to attack new platforms - what draws them now towards the mobile phone? Are phones as a platform simply widespread enough, or is the possibility of making easy money via phone billing systems driving this development? Where are we now and what can we expect to see in the Mobile Malware of the future?

Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corp. He has been analysing viruses since 1991. He has consulted several high-profile organizations on computer security issues, including IBM, Microsoft, FBI, US Secret Service, Interpol and the Scotland Yard. Mr. Hypponen (35) led the team that infiltrated the Slapper worm attack network in 2002, took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm in 2003 and was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak in 2004.

About F-Secure Corporation

F-Secure Corporation is the fastest growing publicly listed company globally in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry with more than 50% revenue growth in 2004. F-Secure services and software protect individuals and businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the Internet or mobile networks. Our award-winning solutions include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions. Our key strength is our proven speed of response to new threats.

For businesses our solutions feature a centrally managed and well integrated suite of solutions for workstations and servers alike. Focused partners offer security as a service for those companies that do not wish to build security expertise in-house. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999. We have our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan.F-Secure is supported by a global ecosystem of service partners, value added resellers and distributors in over 50 countries. F-Secure protection is also available through mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia and as a service through major Internet Service Providers, such as Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Charter Communications. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at the F-Secure Antivirus Research Team weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

About HITBSecConf2005 - Malaysia

HITBSecConf2005 - Malaysia is the 5th conference in the HITBSecConf conference series and is supported and endorsed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Malaysia Administrative Modernisation & Management Planning Unit (MAMPU). Malaysia Airlines is the Official Airline Partner for the event.

For further details and to register http://conference.hackinthebox.org/ or call Hack In The Box (M) Sdn. Bhd. at +603-20394724.

Press inquiries:

F-Secure Corporation
Jaana Sirkia, Communications Manager
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FIN-00181 Helsinki
Tel +358 9 2520 5290
Fax. +358 9 2520 5018

The 2-day Dual-Track security conference agenda is now online. Do note that the schedule is subject to minor changes as we add in the final group of speakers. Our conference kit can be downloaded from here.

The following papers have been announced:

Corp. vs. Corp: Profiling Modern Espionage - Roberto Preatoni & Fabio Ghioni

STIF-ware Evolution - Fyodor Yarochkin & Meder Kydyraliev

Web hacking Kung-Fu and Art of Defense - Shreeraj Shah

VoIPhreaking: How to make free phone calls and influence people - The Grugq

Trends in Real World Attacks: A Compilation of Case Studies - Rohyt Belani

Analyzing Code for Security Defects - Nish Bhalla

Hide-And-Seek: Defining the Roadmap for Malware Detection on Windows - Joanna Rutkowska

Exploiting Microsoft Services For Unix - Swaraj

Java & Secure Programming - Marc Shoenefeld

Wi-Fi Hotspot Security - Jim Geovedi

Social Engineering Fundamentals - Anthony Zboralski & Dave Mckay

Analyzing all that data: Techniques for sifting haystacks and finding needles - Jose Nazario

Hacking Windows CE - San (XFocus)

Hacking Internet Banking Applications - Fabrice Marie

Phishing Attacks: A guide to self assessment - Aaron Higbee

Project Blinkenlights & Arcade - Tim Pritlove

Nematodes - Beneficial Worms - Dave Aitel

Assessing Server Security - State of the Art - Christoff Breytenbach