Global executives exposing themselves to online threats

You can call it what you want.... A new study found that 78% of executives open attachments in e-mails even so they don't know the sender of the mail. This is happening after year on and on education not to do so. The worse thing is that those executives actually place worms and virusses at the top of their security concerns list (92%), followed by a far margin that says hackers would be a security concern (50%) and 40% claiming accidental damage as a risk to security.

So does this mean you are worried that you do something that you should know about, have heard about already, and that you still do it despite all of this? Simply curiosity or simply strange. Definetely a good business for companies such as Network Associates and Symantec. It is no wonder than that firms' budget for Information Security is rising, from 9% in 2002, to 11% in 2003. Spending was expected to hit 13% in 2004 - security to protect the companies from someone who is causing the damage.

The study by the Economist Intelligence Unit carried out for AT&T surveyed 254 senior executives around the world in industries ranging from automotive to tourism.