McAfee's new security hub gives you tips on how to stay safe online
Security experts at McAfee have unveiled a new cyber-security education hub, aimed at making people stay safer online. It is called the Ultimate Guide to Security Threats.
The security firm decided to create the hub after realizing that many people are still fairly uneducated when it comes to cyber-security. At the same time, cyber-crime is growing at an unprecedented rate.
England and Wales have seen 5.1 and 2.5 million cyber-crimes, respectively, in the last year alone. Among those McAfee has questioned, 90 percent believed their online habits were secure, yet 35 percent knew someone who got hacked.
Almost a third (27 percent) haven’t changed their passwords in the last 12 months, and just slightly above a third (34 percent) read the terms and conditions when installing an app (in all honesty, this number is much higher than what I’d expect to see).
Nine out of ten people (90 percent) failed to distinguish a safe from an insecure site, and 37 percent of parents of children under 12 aren’t fully aware what their kids do online.
"Our survey revealed that there was a disparity between how safe we believe we are online, and the reality of our online situation", said a McAfee spokesperson. Ninety per cent of us believe we are secure online, despite almost a third of us having not updated our internet security in over a year, leaving those users susceptible to the worst viruses out there".
"The security threats hub is designed to help educate people on what to look out for when online and to give them a better understanding of why being safe and secure on the web is so important".
Ultimate Guide to Security Threats can be accessed from this link.
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