From: The Register
Fine, go ahead, cyber-crook – cyber-steal my muffin cyber-recipe
Online security for the general public is just too much bother. According to a study released on Tuesday by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and published in IEEE’s IT Professional, people are overwhelmed with messages about online perils and have just given up.
The result, as the study puts it, is security fatigue that leads to risky behavior. Mulling the possibility of a compromised account, one survey participant remarked, “It is not the end of the world. If something happens it is going to happen.”
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