The anticipation of cyber exploitation -- everything from viruses to identity scams -- is substantially higher than the actual results of the last 12 months, when six percent reported being victimized by cybercrime and seven percent said they'd been hit by a physical crime.

According to the poll of 700 U.S. adults, this angst is changing a host of online behaviors.

Seventy percent of those surveyed, for instance, said that they only shop at Internet sites that display a security protection seal or icon, while 64 percent claimed that they don’t conduct e-transactions on a shared computer.

Read this full article at Security Pipeline

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