Since last week we saw the publishing of confidential documents from inside Twitter (I doubt any of you missed that, but if you did, TechCrunch last week got passed documents from a hacker who figured out how to get into several accounts at Twitter).

An update to the WordPress platform, version 2.8.2, was issued earlier today that addresses a security issue known as XSS or  cross-site scripting.

Networks are complicated beasts, and any numbers of things can go wrong.  It’s best not to let other people “help” accidents occur, though, and so network managers may find a list of common security-related mistakes useful.