On the other hand, 50% of the participants said that they believe that their computers are protected and the most important security measure is the use of a security certificate on a website. However, he stressed that people do not pay attention to making sure that the website they access is safe.
This information is relevant, since attackers can make use of security certificates to impersonate a legitimate portal and thus steal information from users who access it. In this regard, the most relevant concerns are loss of money, identity theft, loss of information.
And while strong passwords are the most widely used protection measure, people rarely use a password manager, while two-factor authentication wasn’t even among the most common responses.
“It is one of the most relevant and effective measures that exist, because if there is a theft of credentials, a second authentication factor is required to access the information, but 27.7% do not use it and 31.5% do not even know what it is” Corona explained.
Within the study, it was highlighted that 22% of users were victims of some kind of violation in 2022. The most common, with 46.5%, was financial fraud. 27.3% was phishing, which commonly has a financial objective, while 22.2% was information loss, and 20.2% was phishing attack.
Although progress has been made, Cerdio accepted, “there are still bad self-care practices. There is more concern in updating the equipment or in having strong passwords, but there is still no adequate preparation for protection on the Internet”.
