How cyber savvy are Malaysians? Not very cyber savvy at all when compared to users in 15 other countries.
As part of its ‘Digital Literacy Survey’, Kaspersky Lab surveyed the cyber savviness of more than 18, 000 users, from 16 countries worldwide to find out how they behave on the Internet and how risky their online habits are. The aim was to learn what their online habits were, whether they could make the right decisions about their online security and whether they could recognize a threat when they encountered one. Malaysia sample size
The most dangerous variants of the answers were chosen by users in India, Japan and Malaysia.
The respondents were asked to consider eight potentially dangerous situations, which often occur on the Internet while users are, for example, web surfing, downloading files or using social networks. They were provided with multiple choice answers. The safer their choices, the higher their score with a maximum of 150 per user.
Scores over 137 indicate safe online behavior. For the respondents who score lower than 75, they are categorized in “very dangerous online behavior”. These users are not able to recognize cyberthreats nor they could protect their data from these threats.
Unconcerned About Cyber Security
Overall Malaysians are quite unconcerned about cyber-savviness: they use all sorts of devices and applications regardless of their suitability for confidential correspondence. Among the countries surveyed, Malaysians scored the lowest in this area with 23 percent adopting this false practice. Meanwhile, only eight percent of Australians adopt this practice which position them as the most concerned and the most careful in using devices for communications or messaging applications.
Agree To All Terms, Without Reading!
Malaysians were guilty of installing programs on a device according to the principle "next-next-next-agree" without carefully reading the accompanying messages. In other words, they agree to any additional software and changes to OS settings that these applications push. Malaysia scored lowest in this area with 29 percent of its respondents agreeing to all terms without reading, while Brazilians scored the highest (14 percent) as they read the terms and conditions carefully before agreeing.
Instant Gratification Over Security
Most disturbing of all is the fact that one third of respondents from Malaysia are willing to disable an antivirus solution if it blocks the installation of a program. Basically, they give potentially harmful software complete freedom to do whatever it wants on their device in a case of instant gratification over security. The French scored highest in this area as they opt for keeping their security solution running over a quicker installation option.
Cautious With Unfamiliar Attachments
Malaysians faired positively when it comes to receiving unfamiliar attachment in the email. Close to 90 percent of the respondents will check the attachment for viruses before opening it or delete the message if the attachment is suspicious.
Malaysians Are Password Savvy!
Malaysians are rather protective when they are creating new accounts on a website. Sixty nine percent of Malaysian respondents have several passwords that they rotate when creating new accounts as well as creating new passwords that are strong. When a website requires a more complicated password, 30 percent of Malaysian respondents will do their best to memorize it to avoid other parties abusing the passwords for malicious activities.
Safe Online Shoppers
Malaysian respondents adopted protective measures when they make payment when shopping online. One hundred percent of the respondents will switch the anti-virus protection level to high to avoid any malicious activities occurring online transactions.
Similarly, Malaysian respondents reported that they took protective measures when authorizing online banking transactions. Sixty four percent correctly preferred https URLs for its faster, more secure connection with higher levels of privacy and reliability.
To keep you protected at all time, Kaspersky Lab recommends installing a trusted security solution such as Kaspersky Internet Security 2016,Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac and Kaspersky Internet Security for Android. Do not disable your antivirus as malware never sleeps, even more so in an unprotected online environment.
The instinct of self-preservation is common to us all. In the real world, most people are ready to protect what is valuable to them. However, according to the survey, in the virtual world this instinct often fails, even though a user’s private life, identity, property and money still need to be protected when online.
To adopt best practices to keep yourself protected online, you can :-
· Only open email attachments that come from a reputable source, and even then only if you're expecting to receive something. NEVER open an attachment sent in an unsolicited (spam) email.
· Do not use obvious passwords, for example your name or date of birth. Try to avoid using real words that an attacker could find in a dictionary. Instead, use made-up words and include at least one numeric character, at least one non-alphanumeric charcter and a mix of upper and lower case letters.
· Don’t complete a form in an email message asking for personal information. Only enter such information using a secure website. Check that the URL starts with ‘https://’, rather than just ‘http://’. Look for the lock symbol on the lower right-hand corner of the web browser and double-click it to check the validity of the digital certificate. Or, alternatively, use the telephone to conduct your banking.
· If you must publish your private address electronically, mask it to avoid having it picked up by spammers. ‘Joe.Smith@yahoo.com’ is easy to guess, as is ‘J.Smith@yahoo.com.’ Try writing ‘Joe-dot-Smith-at-yahoo.com’ instead. If you need to publish your private address on a website, do this as a graphics file rather than as a link.
· By using anti-hacking technology, such as a personal firewall. A personal firewall protects PCs from potentially damaging data sent via the Internet by detecting potential intruders and making the PC invisible to hackers.
Just how cyber savvy are you? Take the test to find out: http://ift.tt/1FRticu
As part of its ‘Digital Literacy Survey’, Kaspersky Lab surveyed the cyber savviness of more than 18, 000 users, from 16 countries worldwide to find out how they behave on the Internet and how risky their online habits are. The aim was to learn what their online habits were, whether they could make the right decisions about their online security and whether they could recognize a threat when they encountered one. Malaysia sample size
The most dangerous variants of the answers were chosen by users in India, Japan and Malaysia.
The respondents were asked to consider eight potentially dangerous situations, which often occur on the Internet while users are, for example, web surfing, downloading files or using social networks. They were provided with multiple choice answers. The safer their choices, the higher their score with a maximum of 150 per user.
Scores over 137 indicate safe online behavior. For the respondents who score lower than 75, they are categorized in “very dangerous online behavior”. These users are not able to recognize cyberthreats nor they could protect their data from these threats.
Unconcerned About Cyber Security
Overall Malaysians are quite unconcerned about cyber-savviness: they use all sorts of devices and applications regardless of their suitability for confidential correspondence. Among the countries surveyed, Malaysians scored the lowest in this area with 23 percent adopting this false practice. Meanwhile, only eight percent of Australians adopt this practice which position them as the most concerned and the most careful in using devices for communications or messaging applications.
Agree To All Terms, Without Reading!
Malaysians were guilty of installing programs on a device according to the principle "next-next-next-agree" without carefully reading the accompanying messages. In other words, they agree to any additional software and changes to OS settings that these applications push. Malaysia scored lowest in this area with 29 percent of its respondents agreeing to all terms without reading, while Brazilians scored the highest (14 percent) as they read the terms and conditions carefully before agreeing.
Instant Gratification Over Security
Most disturbing of all is the fact that one third of respondents from Malaysia are willing to disable an antivirus solution if it blocks the installation of a program. Basically, they give potentially harmful software complete freedom to do whatever it wants on their device in a case of instant gratification over security. The French scored highest in this area as they opt for keeping their security solution running over a quicker installation option.
Cautious With Unfamiliar Attachments
Malaysians faired positively when it comes to receiving unfamiliar attachment in the email. Close to 90 percent of the respondents will check the attachment for viruses before opening it or delete the message if the attachment is suspicious.
Malaysians Are Password Savvy!
Malaysians are rather protective when they are creating new accounts on a website. Sixty nine percent of Malaysian respondents have several passwords that they rotate when creating new accounts as well as creating new passwords that are strong. When a website requires a more complicated password, 30 percent of Malaysian respondents will do their best to memorize it to avoid other parties abusing the passwords for malicious activities.
Safe Online Shoppers
Malaysian respondents adopted protective measures when they make payment when shopping online. One hundred percent of the respondents will switch the anti-virus protection level to high to avoid any malicious activities occurring online transactions.
Similarly, Malaysian respondents reported that they took protective measures when authorizing online banking transactions. Sixty four percent correctly preferred https URLs for its faster, more secure connection with higher levels of privacy and reliability.
To keep you protected at all time, Kaspersky Lab recommends installing a trusted security solution such as Kaspersky Internet Security 2016,Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac and Kaspersky Internet Security for Android. Do not disable your antivirus as malware never sleeps, even more so in an unprotected online environment.
The instinct of self-preservation is common to us all. In the real world, most people are ready to protect what is valuable to them. However, according to the survey, in the virtual world this instinct often fails, even though a user’s private life, identity, property and money still need to be protected when online.
To adopt best practices to keep yourself protected online, you can :-
· Only open email attachments that come from a reputable source, and even then only if you're expecting to receive something. NEVER open an attachment sent in an unsolicited (spam) email.
· Do not use obvious passwords, for example your name or date of birth. Try to avoid using real words that an attacker could find in a dictionary. Instead, use made-up words and include at least one numeric character, at least one non-alphanumeric charcter and a mix of upper and lower case letters.
· Don’t complete a form in an email message asking for personal information. Only enter such information using a secure website. Check that the URL starts with ‘https://’, rather than just ‘http://’. Look for the lock symbol on the lower right-hand corner of the web browser and double-click it to check the validity of the digital certificate. Or, alternatively, use the telephone to conduct your banking.
· If you must publish your private address electronically, mask it to avoid having it picked up by spammers. ‘Joe.Smith@yahoo.com’ is easy to guess, as is ‘J.Smith@yahoo.com.’ Try writing ‘Joe-dot-Smith-at-yahoo.com’ instead. If you need to publish your private address on a website, do this as a graphics file rather than as a link.
· By using anti-hacking technology, such as a personal firewall. A personal firewall protects PCs from potentially damaging data sent via the Internet by detecting potential intruders and making the PC invisible to hackers.
Just how cyber savvy are you? Take the test to find out: http://ift.tt/1FRticu
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