Internet Users Scammed...
Leading on from the last post that I did I thought I'd follow it up with some statistics from a recently published report. The government-backed Get Safe Online campaign discovered that one in six adult UK internet users believed that it was the banks' responsibility to protect personal information online. 48% said that they didn't believe it was their own responsibility to secure their personal data online. 13% thought it was up to their ISP to do so. This niaveity could cause them huge problems if that data is comprmised in some way.
Almost 2500 adults were surveyed by the BBC website earlier in the year and of these 12% were victims of Internet fraud within the past year with an average lost of £875. 18% OF those surveyed has responded to spam messages and a further 10% had clicked on a link in a spam email.
More worrying though is that 50% did not have anti-spyware protection and 13% of users did not have a firewall installed on their PC. If you leave your house then you don't go before checking the doors and windows are shut should be exactly the same sort of security that you should look to have before logging on to the internet. If you leave the 'windows' and 'doors' open on your machine then it's just a question of time before someone lets themself in.
How safe are you? click here to find out....
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