Mr. Chilikov has been the head of the Research Department at Passware since the department was founded in 2003. In 1999, he started his job at Passware as an expert in IT Security and Mathematics. He studied at Moscow State University and earned his PhD from there when he was 24.
We present the interview with our
columnist, Matt Jonkan. Matt has been involved in Information
Technology since the late-1980s. He has a strong background in
banking and network security, network engineering, incident response,
and Intrusion Detection. Matt is founder of Bleeding Snort
(www.bleedingsnort.com), an open-source research community for
Intrusion Detection Signatures and much more.
We present an
interview with Richard Matthew Stallman (frequently abbreviated to
RMS), the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project, the
Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. An
acclaimed hacker, his major accomplishments include the original
Emacs (and a decade later GNU Emacs), the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU
Debugger. He is also the author of the GNU General Public License
(GNU GPL or GPL), the most widely used free software license, which
pioneered the concept of the copyleft.
Caleb
Sima, Co-founder and CTO of S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc. is widely known in
the Internet security community for his expertise in penetration
testing and his ability to identify emerging security threats. He
worked for the elite X-Force R&D team at Internet Security
Systems, and as a security engineer for S1 Corporation.
Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software package. Originally designed as a human rights tool, PGP was freely distributed on the Internet in 1991. Zfone, his latest cryptography project provides secure telephony for the Internet.
In a time of uncertainty, one may often wonder what our future may hold. We hear so much today about virus attacks, spam, bot networks, identity theft, and even horrid stories of predatory child practices and extortion, but what does this all mean? To answer some of these questions, Hakin9 had the pleasure to talk with Professor Tom Holton about the attributes of Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism.
