Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Workers ignore link, attachment risks

A survey into the habits of 142 UK office workers conducted by Finjan, the global provider of best-of-breed proactive Web security solutions, has uncovered that although they know the security risk to their employers caused by clicking on Web-links or opening attachments from unknown sources, they simply can't help themselves. Of those questioned 93 per cent said that they knew that links, attachments, pop boxes and web pages could have spyware or other forms of malicious code embedded within them. However, 86 per cent admitted that they <A HREF="http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=4334">opened attachments and clicked on links without being sure if it was safe to do so.</A>

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