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Most of us think we’re too smart to fall for phishing, but our research found some fake websites worked a whopping 45% of the time. On average, people visiting the fake pages submitted their info 14% of the time, and even the most obviously fake sites still managed to deceive 3% of people. Considering that an attacker can send out millions of messages, these success rates are nothing to sneeze at.

Home Depot said hackers got into its systems last April by stealing a password from a vendor, opening a tiny hole that grew into the biggest retail-credit-card breach on record. On Thursday, the company announced the breach was worse than earlier thought. In addition to the 56 million credit-card accounts that were compromised, Home Depot now says around 53 million customer email addresses were stolen as well.

« GlobalWebIndex estimates that over 400 million people in the worldwide log on using virtual private networks (VPNs) that obscure their true location. Another 400 million-odd remain uncounted because they share devices, and more than 150 million aren’t counted because they access the web from mobile devices only, avoiding traditional tracking techniques such as cookies ». (via Hey America, you’re not as important as you think (at least on the internet) – Quartz)

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