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Survey SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL CONSUMER Concern About Phishing Attacks This Year; Many Adults are Still Engaging in Dangerous Online Behaviour that Can Lead to Getting Hooked by Phishing.
M2 PRESSWIRE-30 August 2007-Cloudmark, Inc.: Survey SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL CONSUMER Concern About Phishing Attacks This Year; Many Adults are Still Engaging in Dangerous Online Behaviour that Can Lead to Getting Hooked by Phishing(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced the results of a survey conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive , which revealed that 89 percent of online adults are equally or more concerned about becoming a phishing victim than they were last year. Phishing attacks are email scams that attempt to defraud consumers of their personal information (e.g., bank account, social security, credit card, etc.) by pretending to have been sent by a trustworthy entity such as a bank or credit lender. Nevertheless, according to the poll, online adults still engage in at least one of the five major activities that often lead to being the victim of a phishing attack. In the past year:
Nearly two in five (37 percent) have opened emails from unknown senders.
About one in seven (13 percent) have clicked on links in emails from unknown senders.…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Survey SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL CONSUMER Concern About Phishing Attacks This...
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