The first question someone is likely to ask about Trend Micro's recently updated SafeSync for Business is a simple one: "How does this compare with Dropbox?," the service that has come to define cloud-based storage for many of us. The answer is: favorably, since SafeSync now combines Dropbox ease-of-use with power-user sync features.

Can a lack of protection at one business lead to potential catastrophe at another? It may be more likely than we want to think. The cyberattack on an Illinois water plant is a case in point. That the attack didn't actually take place hardly matters -- as an emergency planner I know a possible scenario when I see one.

Last week the media -- including TechSecurityToday -- published reports of how a Illinois water plant had been hacked by Russians, causing damage to a water pump. It now turns out that by the time news of the "incident" leaked to the media, the Department of Homeland Security had decided no attack actually took place. We just didn't hear that news until yesterday.

Cyberwarfare has not yet happened, is not happening and will never occur, says Dr. Thomas Rid of London's King's College. But that doesn't mean some very bad things haven't already and won't again take place -- they just won't be war.

Here is a list you might want to share with your users, family and friends. Certainly, none of us are using any of SplashData's "25 Worst Internet Passwords of 2011." Right? But, if you are, I promise not to tell.