Neal Weinberg

When the going gets tough, the tough starts cutting

Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo discussed the Russian mafia, the latest in hacker tricks and their view that the bad guys are winning.

IT will waste an estimated US$100 billion over the next five years by overspending on network products and services.

The first retail item ever barcoded was a pack of Wrigley gum back in 1974, but the Chicago-based manufacturer is not interested in chewing up a lot of internal resources when it comes to RFID.

The first retail item ever barcoded was a pack of Wrigley gum back in 1974, but the Chicago-based manufacturer is not interested in chewing up a lot of internal resources when it comes to RFID.

The war on spam is far from over, but there was a growing sense among the antispam crusaders gathered at MIT last week that advances on both the legal and technology fronts have turned the tide against the Viagra peddlers and Nigerian princesses. Nobody was claiming that spam will ever be completely eliminated, or even that the amount of spam is decreasing.

Mikko Hypp

In honour of Father