Despite regular news reports of hackings, cyber-attacks, identity theft and state-funded malware infecting individual and public sector computers, security experts do not agree on which present the biggest threat.
What cannot be disputed is the detrimental impact these invasions have on individuals, corporations and government organizations. According to a 2009 Statistics Canada report, two-thirds of Internet users reported that they had been impacted by malware and almost half had been exposed to phishing attempts.
Carleton University’s Sonia Chiasson, Canada Research Chair in Human-oriented Computer Security, is working to address these issues... Read the full story in this month's issue of Research Works!