Report: Most are cyber risk-takers

InfoSecurity.com reports on a Symantec study that found most people make risky moves online.

Take a guess — How many of you take security risks everyday?

The results from a new Symantec survey found almost everyone makes takes a least at least one daily security risk, InfoSecurity.com.

Let’s break it down by percentage. The survey found that more than 40 percent of people have uploaded files to staging sites and more than a third admitted they had emailed them to email accounts or third parties.

Even more troubling is that almost 60 percent of respondents say they are risk takers.

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