Internet users are too confident they're protected

Given the number of high profile security breaches that make the headlines, you'd expect people to be wary about online security. But a new study by Malwarebytes Labs shows a mismatch between people's confidence in their own privacy and security practices and their actual behavior. Malwarebytes surveyed almost 4,000 people and finds that while data privacy was a top concern, with trust in companies to maintain it painfully low, users do not follow through with some of the more difficult and cumbersome cybersecurity best practices to keep their data safe. The company believes this gap between perception and reality to… [Continue Reading]