Security risks are growing ever larger, but a study says people are paying less attention than ever to computer security.
The NSA is in our in-box, malware is everywhere, and Web sites are getting knocked off by hackers ever other day. So you might think us computer users would be trying to take better care of our home computers. You would be wrong.
At the @Microsoft Conversations event in Washington DC on September 12, 2013, Microsoft released its latest Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MCSI) results for worldwide consumer computer security. The results were awful.
The MCSI is a tiered security scoring system. It was first developed in a 2011 study sponsored by Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Online Safety group. The survey contains more than 20 steps consumers can take to help protect themselves online. The more steps the user reports taking, the higher the online safety score; 100 is the highest rating possible.
Would you care to guess what the average score is in the United States?
Ready?
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