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<\/a><\/p>\nKaspersky Lab has recently conducted some unusual research. A jocose comparison of people\u2019s daily habits revealed that citizens of the Netherlands and United Kingdom are the most cyber savvy, as roughly a third of them owns more passwords than pairs of underwear.<\/p>\n
The majority of people change lingerie regularly \u2014 almost every day or even more often. As for passwords, only one in two renew them at least every six months. Others keep the same passwords for years, if not forever.<\/p>\n
At the same time, people are anxious that anyone could gain access to their personal data. More than a quarter of Europeans think that to keep their personal data accessible for everyone would be a nightmare. Even worse than being seen without underwear.<\/p>\n The problem to be focus on here is that so many users only care about security to a medium level, if they care about it at all. For example, they use only one password for all of their accounts and don\u2019t change it, which is a bad idea. In this case all a criminal needs to do is to compromise one of your accounts to gain access to all of your other accounts \u2013 including your primary e-mail and even Internet bank.<\/p>\n Some users choose very short passwords, while a decent combination is much longer. It should contain letters, numbers and symbols<\/a>. A long real word is not an option \u2014 almost every criminal can use the brute force method to enter even the whole English dictionary successively, until they find your password. Combinations that consist of any personal names can be hacked just as easily.<\/p>\n How strong is your #password<\/a>? Check it here: http:\/\/t.co\/9ILaxq503k<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/P9Pm0SGc4n<\/a> #internet<\/a> #security<\/a> #infosec<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) August 21, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n