Security on the web

The BBC's technology section has an article on wi-fi security today. Apparently hackers can now easily pick up wi-fi users cookies, containing our webmail logins and social networking sites logins and access them to their amusements...or for whatever reasons they find that necessary.

A quote from the newsbit goes: "This gives attackers access to mail messages or the page someone maintains on sites such as MySpace or Facebook."

This was made public at an online security conference, or rather hackers meet-up, in Vegas recently. The author of the hacking tool is a professional hacker/online security expert who will make the tool available for download from his company's site from hereon.

This is interesting. I suppose this is done as a way of trying to prompt and speed up relevant problem fixing at each and every website involved. It makes you wonder though how many other real hacking tools are out there in need of fixing measures by website owners.

Doing my research, the issues of control of content as well as access keep, not surprisingly, cropping up. There are so many issues that libraries feel they need to take into account in order to be able to participate fully on the web - and rather than those issues being resolved, more seem to be adding on.