The big news coming out on a regular basis is major retail chains hacked, personal data stolen, major online cloud data ransacked by hackers, personal data on sale over the web and more. It doesn’t matter where you turn it’s happening everywhere.

With the internet coming to thermostats, fire sensors, ovens, fridges, cars, home security, lights and so much more the internet connected home is a reality. But at the same time we leave ourselves and our personal lives and home open to hackers and a major breach of our security and personal data.

But this is only a small part of the chain. Power stations, major companies, major factory lines and more all have computers. And these are getting hacked too with trade secrets being stolen at an alarming rate.

Cyber security researchers have detected viruses in online banking transactions with customers who swipe debit or credit cards at shopping counters as well as companies who stock them. Is anything safe?

Even petrol stations are at risk. Skimming devices, placed on card readers at gas station pumps throughout the southern U.S., recorded credit and debit card data and the data sent via bluetooth to the criminals who didn’t even need to collect the equipment.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.

I do wonder if we are going so end up being the world as shown in many futuristic films where technology caused the world to implode and we go back to using the Nokia brick phone of 10 years ago!

In other news we might see a glimpse of the sun today.