Around 12 per cent of participants said they clicked on the 'OK' button in the pop-up because the box told them to do so, and nearly a quarter admitted that they did this with any pop-up.
(Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University, September 2008)
One in 10 British customers were unable to identify a fifth of their monthly transactions.
ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
52.5 percent of people browsing the 'Net with Internet Explorer are using Internet Explorer 7, which has the latest security updates.
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, July 2008)
83.3% of Firefox users have the most secure browser version compared to 47.6% of Internet Explorer users.
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, July 2008)
Between January 1 and June 27 this year, the total number of data breaches recorded by the ITRC is 342, more than 69% greater than the same time period in 2007.
(The Identity Theft Resource Center (US), July 2008)
75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws.
(Carnegie Mellon University study (US), July 2008)
47% of banks have lack of SSL sessions on "secure login boxes".
