The wisdom of years: the older user - harder passwords
A survey of 4,000 people in the United States and the United Kingdom showed that users between the ages of 18 and 34 often use simple passwords, and 35% of respondents in this group “hijacked” their accounts at least once. On the other hand, survey respondents aged from 51 to 69 do not use “password”, “1234” or birthdays, set up two-factor authentication twice as often and are less likely to get hacked.
A survey of Gigya touched millennials - people aged 18 to 34 years old, the generation “X” - aged 35 to 50 years old, and baby boomers - from 51 to 69 years old. With age, people begin to be more careful about protecting their accounts. If 8% of millenials use the same password for all accounts, then among people over 51 years old there are 4%. Only 12 percent of people from 18 to 34 years old create unique passwords for each account, and 20% of baby boomers do the same.
Accordingly, the statistics and hacking. 82% of Baby Boomers and 64% of Millennials never compromised accounts. One out of ten respondents aged 18 to 34 recognized that his accounts had been hacked more than ten times in the past year.
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If the use of the same password can be justified for any forums, then it is difficult to explain this behavior for online banking, shops with linked cards and other services related to money. Fraud through information technology costs Americans $ 16 billion a year, but nonetheless, a quarter of respondents say they "have no time to invent more complex passwords."
56% of people use knowingly insecure passwords and are aware of this. Among such passwords are the birth dates of users. But the older the users, the more cautious they are with passwords and the more often they use unique combinations for each of their accounts. 59% of average users forget their passwords from 1 to 5 times a year.
The Gigya survey also showed another pattern: baby boomers are two times more likely to use two-factor authentication when present, than millennials.
This research was conducted by Gigya to show how insecure the use of passwords is. Including - because of human stupidity. The company develops other solutions for user security, including biometric authentication systems.
A survey of Gigya touched millennials - people aged 18 to 34 years old, the generation “X” - aged 35 to 50 years old, and baby boomers - from 51 to 69 years old. With age, people begin to be more careful about protecting their accounts. If 8% of millenials use the same password for all accounts, then among people over 51 years old there are 4%. Only 12 percent of people from 18 to 34 years old create unique passwords for each account, and 20% of baby boomers do the same.
Accordingly, the statistics and hacking. 82% of Baby Boomers and 64% of Millennials never compromised accounts. One out of ten respondents aged 18 to 34 recognized that his accounts had been hacked more than ten times in the past year.
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If the use of the same password can be justified for any forums, then it is difficult to explain this behavior for online banking, shops with linked cards and other services related to money. Fraud through information technology costs Americans $ 16 billion a year, but nonetheless, a quarter of respondents say they "have no time to invent more complex passwords."
56% of people use knowingly insecure passwords and are aware of this. Among such passwords are the birth dates of users. But the older the users, the more cautious they are with passwords and the more often they use unique combinations for each of their accounts. 59% of average users forget their passwords from 1 to 5 times a year.
The Gigya survey also showed another pattern: baby boomers are two times more likely to use two-factor authentication when present, than millennials.
This research was conducted by Gigya to show how insecure the use of passwords is. Including - because of human stupidity. The company develops other solutions for user security, including biometric authentication systems.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/357114/
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