Expert: Online security education is failing

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Efforts to educate users about the dangers of phishing attacks and other online fraud have failed, according to a leading information security expert.


The increasingly sophisticated techniques used by hackers are making it extremely tricky for internet users to differentiate between real and fake websites, said William Beer, European director of Symantec’s security practice, in an address to delegates at the e-Crime summit in London ...

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