For some years now we have been told repeatedly that we must get online for just about everything, whether for software, apps, shopping, communication, data storage – you name it – we must do it online! It's worrying then when there are regular headlines about the latest hack into someone's data or whether someone has seen someone else's data online accidentally. I'm still getting emails from scammers using clients' Yahoo email addresses and emails even from someone using my email address which is very puzzling! 

We read about people who have committed suicide because they have been exposed on dating sites. Apparently Russian submarines have been sniffing around undersea Internet cables practicing cutting them if relations with the West deteriorate further. Think also on the debates about the ownership of data online. With certain accounting software business owners have found they don't own their own data – how crazy is that?

Read more here and what you can do about online security.