http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02/study_users_dont_much_care_about_heartbleed_hacking_dangers/
By Shaun Nichols
The Register
2 May 2014
Despite dire warnings from security experts and a massive public awareness
campaign, users are less aware of the Heartbleed flaw than other recent
security threats.
So say researchers with the Pew Research Center. According to a public
survey of 1,501 people conducted by the company, less than one fifth feel
they are well versed on the dangers of the flaw, and less than 40 per cent
have taken action to protect their accounts.
The survey (PDF) polled users on both the level of their awareness on the
data-leaking OpenSSL flaw and the steps they have taken to change
credentials which may have been harvested by attackers. The study of 1,501
American adults was taken in the midst of the Heartbleed scare between the
23-27 April.
During that time, researchers found that 60 per cent of adults had heard
of Heartbleed in some form, though 41 per cent said that they had "a
little" information about the flaw and just 19 per cent had heard "a lot"
about it.
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