The vulnerability represented by the BEAST shouldn't be viewed as a major crime risk, rather as just one of hundreds, if not thousands, of Internet flaws that will soon to be discovered in the near future.

If you own a business with an investment in a web presence, whether it is the core of your e-commerce sales or just a brochure site, you should be thinking about what could be a soon-to-be personal relationship with the hackers behind your very own security breach.

If you’re being honest with yourself, major successful cyber attacks on companies in the past few years should convince you of the fact that your business could eventually fall victim to a cyber attack.

Are we ever going to get passwords right? And by “right”, I mean impossible to crack, easy and inexpensive to implement, and acceptable to a public that generally views passwords as an annoyance?

Like any well-established sub-culture, the world of script kiddies is fascinating to watch, difficult to fully understand from the outside and obviously intriguing to those within that world.

The joy of a hacker extracting your data is similar to the excitement one experiences playing the mechanical claw arcade machines – the one where you insert a few quarters and grab a toy with a mechanical claw. Picture the hacker running scripts instead of using the arcade game joystick.

While our attention is immediately drawn to the Internet when we think about the benign-turned-evil Matrix, a more interesting comparison can be made to the current Internet plague of botnets.

There are thousands of script kiddies, launching hundreds of thousands of automated attacks every day. Anyone who argues that their website is too small or obscure for anyone to test for flaws isn’t paying attention to the fact that everyone’s website is being tested, all the time.

The world’s expectations of breach-proof SSL certification agencies have been shattered. As expected all of the ruling bodies that control the Internet have rallied to identify the root causes of these breaches and are working on future preventable mechanisms.

With its publicly stated goal of protecting the rights of the masses against big business and government, Anonymous launched several successful attacks on the BART Web Site as well as other city Web Sites.

Most people will focus on perimeter security and think that they have it all covered. Unfortunately, network security is never enough. Just as we cant control what's on television, who is in Internet chat rooms or who is on the other end of the phone, we can't control the browsers that are interacting with your web applications.