Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, said that another Sony breach had been almost inevitable.

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Mikko Hypponen is chief security officer for F-Secure, a leading computer security company.

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"The numbers today are small, but the potential is huge, " says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for antivirus firm F-Secure.

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One of the industries brightest and most prominent researchers, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, offered a public mea culpa last week for the failure of Anti-Virus vendors to detect and prevent advanced malware such as the recently discovered Flame.

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