Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data — and only two are considered crimes.

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NEW DELHI: In almost the last three years, 117 government websites have been hacked by various groups, parliament was informed on Wednesday. “As per the information tracked and reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team a total of 90,119,252 and 117 government websites were hacked in the year 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (till June) by various hacker groups,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said.
BIO: Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991. Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine. He also received the Virus Bulletin Award, awarded every ten years, as “Best in industry”.

