How employee internet habits expose companies to cyber attacks [Video]

By Stephen Beech via SWNS

Employees who visit porn or gambling websites double the risk of a company being infected by a computer virus, warns new research.

The cybersecurity study calculated the odds of encountering seven kinds of malicious software, or malware, which is a worldwide threat to network security for businesses and other organizations.

Individual users within those networks may inadvertently download or interact with malware – such as viruses or ransomware – by browsing unsafe websites, downloading software, or clicking on phishing links in emails.

Researchers from the University of Trento in Italy and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Holland and the global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro wanted to know what behaviours bring the greatest risk of malware infection.

They looked at the impacts of working at night, browsing adult content, gambling, having a lot of software installed or just visiting strange places.

Categories of malware included in the analysis were virus, trojan, worm, hacking …