Pew Research Study on What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity

Pew has released results from their survey on what the public knows about cybersecurity. As you can probably guess, the results were not stellar.  (I took the survey, and got 10 out of 10 correct, putting me at the 1% threshold).  The findings were from an online survey of 1,055 adult internet users living in the United States conducted June 17-27, 2016. Of the 13 questions asked (not sure why I was only 10), people averaged 5 correct answers. They did get that the  "s" in  https means encryption, and what phishing is, but did much more poorly on more technical questions.

URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/22/what-the-public-knows-about-cybersecurity/

When you go to the article, you too can take the quiz.

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