Trojan applications installed on your computer can also take advantage of your increased bandwidth to participate in more aggressiveattacks against other organisations. The most underrated of known threats, however, is snooping. We as users routinely send all types of documents anywhere across the Internet unprotected. You never really know where your email has been, who is looking at it. Government monitoring also opens opportunities for disclosure.
User error can also send information to unintended recipients.
The main issue here is education. We as security professionals have a responsibility to our community to educate the average Internet user. They need to know that their privacy may be disclosed via emails, Trojan horses and unethical corporations. Experts agree that most users lack the essential information about risks and how to counter them. Lack of education is also a problem in the corporate world, according to Knight.