More reason to beware

As more and more businesses move themselves on to the web then it gets easier for us all to be making transactions and putting potentially important data on to someones webserver. Most people would say this is of concern to them if they do order online whereas some people (My dad is a prime example) won't order online at all because they don't understand the risks and just think it's not safe. I'm a definite advocate of ordering online and ALL of last years Christmas shopping was carried out online, it was great! Not a mass of sweaty shoppers pushing in front of each other and then long queues at the till.

The thing is that when you read reports such as this one - here - it does make you a little bit more cautious when you think that these types of 'hacker toolkits' can be found so easily and so cheaply really. I've been fortunate in never having had any problems with online ordering (crosses fingers) but I think it's inevitable that it will happen, its just a question of when. You can see the quandry. Being a man the shopping thing goes against every fibre of my being. Is the risk of ordering online at the moment too great to stop me from doing it and sending me back to the scrums of the shops? Not on your nelly.

What are your thoughts on ordering online? Is it worth the risk or do you think there are safer ways of ordering your goods other than going to the shop.

Your thoughts please.

Mark