Facebook today, in an anticipated move since the announcement made by Mark Zuckerberg to users on the site, has removed regional privacy settings. According to executives, half of all users are currently affiliated with a regional network. Due to the growing base for some of those networks, sharing information has grown to be a concern for some users and privacy advocates alike.

Microsoft Corp. today released the seventh volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over the preceding six months. Rogue security software remains a major threat to customers; however, 20 percent fewer customers were affected by rogue infections during the past six months.

It use to be a huge problem – wireless security.  Drive up and down any street in the US and you would see all kinds of wireless networks unsecured.  This was largely in part due to the failure of router manufacturers to enable basic security by default.  The sad part is that after all of the education security experts have done in this area – it still happens.
I felt compelled, almost obligated, to write an article on wireless network security after two recent incidents I encountered with administrators setting up …