Half of Spanish Internet users stored their passwords in an insecure way


Half of Spanish Internet users stored their passwords in an insecure way



The keys used have a low level of security



    123456 or qwerty are the most used passwords in the whole planet and according to Kaspersky Lab, half of Spanish consumers store their passwords in an insecure way. About three out of ten point to it in a notebook and 10% use the same password to access all online services.

According to this study, "many" Spanish consumers understand the need to have strong passwords in their accounts. Regarding the platforms that demand safer keys, 65% cited online banking, while 44% did the same with payment applications such as digital wallets and 43% pointed to ecommerce stores.

    However, the difficulty of remembering all these secure passwords means that it is "very likely" that they will forget and end up unable to access their accounts. In fact, 40% of Spaniards can not quickly restore those passwords after having lost them, according to the study.

When it comes to saving passwords, 55% of the sample recognizes that it stores them in an insecure way, with 27% writing them in a notebook so as not to have to remember them, which also puts their security at risk, Kaspersky said. Lab

To avoid having to remember long credentials, some people are developing "unsafe" password habits, according to the Russian company. 10% of respondents use a single key for all their accounts, which avoids having to make an effort to remember how to log on to an 'online' platform, but there is a risk that a cybercriminal can access all accounts if they take over of that password.

In fact, 19% of Spaniards surveyed by Kaspersky Lab have had to face the threat or have seen how they 'hacked' one of their accounts in the last 12 months. E-mail credentials are the main target (43%) of cybercriminals, followed closely by social networks (39%), bank accounts (20%) and online store accounts (20%).

According to data from the National Institute of Cybersecurity of Spain (Incibe), more than 120,000 incidents of Internet security have been recorded in 2017, a record number that increases from year to year and in 2014 stood at 18,000, according to the director of this body, Alberto Hernández.

In 2015, 50,000 incidents of cybersecurity were recorded by the Incibe, and in 2016 they were 115,000, a figure that is increasing "not only because cyber attacks are increasing, but because there are increasing capacities to detect them", he explained.

Cybersecurity, as he said, also constitutes "a business opportunity", taking into account that worldwide has grown the sector by 12% and 13% in Spain, which places it above the European average.

He pointed out the need to train experts in computer security, since it is estimated that by 2020 there will be "one million unfilled jobs" related to cybersecurity in Europe.

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