This week: There was little fun or love going around at Microsoft after it sent support customers the FunLove virus, it`s never been easier to be a cracker, and hackers are getting smarter all the time.

Intellectual property is no longer considered as a personal asset. It now also relates to the business sphere and the sum total of skills and intelligence held by a company`s employees.

If the culture of breaching IT security were to die locally, it would not necessarily benefit the SA market.

IBM SA and Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) SA have agreed to work together to market joint solutions to specific vertical sectors.

UUNet Namibia has unveiled UUhost, its co-located hosting facility and product range.

AST Security Management says the Entrust.net solution protects users and organisations using Web server certificates against the misuse of digital certificates.

This week: UK lawmakers bust banking rip-off, childish virus prank gets culprit many hours of community service, to FTP or not to FTP is not even a question, and Microsoft`s vulnerabilities could prove expensive.

Government hasn`t realised the scope of the project to bring e-government and e-commerce to the nation, and is ill-equipped to deliver on its promises.

The technology industry continues to suffer, with the last two weeks seeing further job loss announcements, profit warnings and very poor quarterly results.

The wireless revolution could translate into an office that follows you wherever you go. With a little investment in technology, we could eradicate the possibility of free time.

With all of the software and Web terms of use, licensing agreements and policy documents that I agree to, I wonder how often I have signed my life away.

This week: Gartner warns of "economic mass victimisation", security-compromising worms are increasingly targeting Linux, and anonymous e-mail can be quite revealing.

The recent yahoo.co.za domain name dispute left me feeling cynical, disappointed and bitterly disillusioned.