Locking up the Open Internet? (Part 2)

The problems associated are identity theft, brute force attacks (that crippled the internet itself in some instances these past few years leading to billions in losses) and other seemingly innocent invasions of the internet type. A new generation of tech savvy hackers who are well educated with he technologies that are in use it as tools for propaganda and other criminal activities and there seems to be no stopping them in the near future. Security is the problems for m\not many realize just how vulnerable they really are from attack. Most operating systems like Windows, Leopard and Linux based variants have built-in protection but they are rarely configured properly to provide ample protection form intrusion.