The Personal Cybersecurity Playbook 2026

What this book is

Almost everyone who reads a book like this begins from the same position: nobody would bother with me, I'm not important, there's nothing interesting in my email. All of that is probably true, and none of it protects you, because you have misunderstood how this works.

Nobody chose you. You were not selected, researched, or targeted. Your email address appeared in a list. An automated system tried a password that leaked from a shopping site in 2019 against forty other services. The economics are industrial, and industrial economics do not care whether you are interesting. The consequences, however, are entirely personal: a compromised email account is not an inconvenience, it is the key to every other account you own. A cloned voice does not need to fool the world; it needs to fool your mother for ninety seconds.