Huge security risk: half of people do not use password to protect their cell phone

Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives. Thanks to them, we remember important communications, access our bank accounts and manage social networks. This is all the more striking as more than half of the people do not use any password to access their phone.

9 July 2018

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Mobile devices are an interesting cure for pocket thieves,
for the content and data that people collect in them. According to the current
The study of Kaspersky Lab on almost half (52%) of people
they do not use the password to protect their cellphone, they expose them so much
more risk than I can imagine

Many people today rely on their mobile devices
allow access to the Internet and conduct online activities. loss
the equipment following the flight is therefore potentially even more dangerous
like never before. For example, 68% of people say regularly
use the Internet on their smartphone (compared to 60% in 2016)
and 34% of them regularly use the tablet activity online

These gadgets are used to store and send several types

For example, more than a third (35%) of people use their smartphone for
Internet banking, which, of course, gives access to financial resources

In addition, 57% of people regularly use smartphones to access their devices.
personal email account, and 55% say that they use them for activities on
social networks, where they gather so many sensitive people

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Keeping a large group of people on mobile devices
the amount of sensitive data without any form of protection is worrying.
The password for protecting your mobile is used by less than half (48%) of people and only
14% of people encrypt their files and folders to prevent unauthorized access

Even the loss of a password-protected device can be considerable
consequences. For example, less than half (41%) of people save their data and
only 22% use mobile devices on their mobile devices
flight, which may lead to the situation of the former owners of these
devices will likely have a problem accessing their staff
information and account

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Source: TASR