Friday, September 26, 2008

Brits happy to hand over password details for £5 gift voucher

This should tell security professionals something...Although the majority (60 percent) of 207 London residents were happy to hand over computer password data which might be useful to potential ID thieves in exchange for a £5 M&S gift voucher, the public at large take a hard line on firms who fail to keep tight hold of customer data. Maybe a topic for the next security training session?

Read the full article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/security_breach_attitudes_survey/

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