Exaggerated? One in four Chileans would prefer to attack their home before hacking their social networks

One in four Chileans would prefer that he steal his house or stolen his car before hacking his social networks and blocking it forever. This was revealed by a regional study developed for the first time by Kaspersky Lab in collaboration with Chilean market research firm CORPA.

According to the survey, men ages 18 to 24 would be most willing to experience such situations. , belonging mainly to segments ABC1 and C3. On the other hand, those who opt the least are women aged 35 to 50 in the C2 socio-economic segment.

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In contrast, in Latin America, it is the Colombians who lead the way, with one in three willing to suffer the theft of their car or their home, instead of blocking their networks. Next are Brazilians (27%), Argentineans (25%), Peruvians (24%) and Mexicans (22%).

According to the study, she is part of the "Digital Resaca" campaign promoted by the global society. cybersecurity to educate Chilean netizens to the risks involved in navigating without warning, Chilean netizens can become easy prey for cyber criminals because of a series of careless behaviors.

Eyes with pbadwords and personal data

For example, 18% of respondents do not have a pbadword to access their mobile devices, 43% shared their code of 39% of users had access to smartphones and tablets, 47% provided their personal data on at least five web pages, and 85% left open sessions on their mobile devices

. This excessive trust of users could result in more of a problem. Piracy of a social profile, such as Facebook or LinkedIn for example, can lead (among other things) to identity theft, allowing the cybercriminal to post comments or images that could compromise the reputation of the company. 39; individual. or even the total theft of the identity of the victim.

In fact, according to the survey, nearly 20% of respondents said they were hacked and, of this figure, the majority corresponds to women aged 18 to 15 years. 24 years old belonging to the ABC1 segment. Those who claim that less hacking has suffered are men aged 35 to 50 in the C3 socio-economic segment.

"A lot of these attacks are caused by the bad habits of Internet users and because many of them are obviously not, they measure the dangers to which they are exposed when they navigate", said Dimitry Bestuzhev, director of Kaspersky Lab's global badysis and research team in Latin America. "In fact, the vast majority seem to isolate his digital life from his current life and do not realize that this that she does or puts online is affecting her life offline. "

Read before authorizing

The study also revealed that 63% of Chileans were not reading the terms of an app before downloading it to their device. That's because he considers them long and boring, or because he does not think it's going to hurt him. 8% do not do it because they do not understand it.

49% admit not having a security application and 34% have one, but only 3% have a paid version that includes more solutions. complete and personalized. Finally, 17% of respondents do not know if they have it.

In the same line, 33% acknowledge having deactivated their security solution one or more times on their PC or mobile phone because it did not allow them to download an application.

Men choose more to do it, with 42% against 24% for women. 44% of those who have disabled are young people aged 18 to 24, while 18% of those consulted do not even know if she has ever disabled.

Give importance to the safety of devices

You must be careful with these "special permits" that you sometimes allow by having the application. "Disabling the security solution of the smartphone or tablet is a big mistake, but not having one is even more so.There are many options on the market, even free, that allow you to protect your devices, even if they are basic, "says the specialist.

He adds that "as long as users do not give equal importance to digital security, which they give to their social networking profiles or to their offline life, cybercrimes will continue to occur It is naïve to think that nothing will happen to us – everyone can steal money, keys, personal information, cybercrime is increasing every day and no one is released from it. "