LONDON (Reuters) - Lax security and complacency make British businesses ideal targets for Internet fraudsters, according to government research published Tuesday.
The Department of Trade and Industry's Security Breaches Survey 2000 shows that 60 percent of British businesses connected to the Internet have suffered a security breach in the last two years.
``As they rush to trade electronically, organizations are increasingly exposing their information and IT systems to a wide range of security threats,'' a public relations firm working for the DTI said in a statement.
Two-thirds of companies interviewed said they had not done anything to increase security since the breaches had occurred, a spokesman for the DTI said.